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Michael Mewshaw’s five-decade career includes award-winning fiction, non-fiction, literary criticism, travel writing and investigative journalism. In his memoirs, Mewshaw has written about authors such as William Styron, James Jones, Paul Bowles, Anthony Burgess, Gore Vidal, Italo Calvino, Pat Conroy, and Graham Greene. He has written hundreds of articles, reviews and literary profiles for The New YorkTimes, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, Newsweek, Harper’s and many international outlets. He’s the author of a dozen novels and as many nonfiction titles. He’s lived a nomadic life for more than 50 years, having traveled and lived in many different countries in Europe, Africa and the Far East. He currently winters in Key West with his wife Linda.
Michael Mewshaw's Not Heaven but Paradise is nothing less than majestic, among the finest contemporary novels I've read in the last couple of decades. Mewshaw's sentences sing. His ability to evoke a setting that many will find exotic rivals Graham Greene's, as does the depth of his characterization and his ability to make the reader keep wondering what in the world might happen next. The narrative keeps delivering surprises all the way to the final line. I love this novel. My admiration for the book and its author is boundless. — Steve Yarbrough I gobbled this novel right up with great pleasure. All the characters are strong. It’s gripping the masterly way Mewshaw invokes contemporary Spain, the politics, Islam, tourism, real estate. The tone is so ominous, all the while avoiding melodrama and bullfights. — Diane Johnson
