FICTION

  • “Mewshaw has an instinct for subjects in which something human and crucial is at stake... the honesty and insight into the people he writes about are utterly convincing.”

    —Larry McMurtry, Washington Post

  • “Mewshaw has inventiveness, the real narrative pace and feel for story, and strong visual sense and style.”

    —Robert Penn Warren

  • “Michael Mewshaw has a remarkable sense of place.”

    —Graham Greene

  • “Mewshaw is one of the best American novelists, a master of plot and style, at the top of his form.”

    —Robert Stone

  • “Mewshaw’s depiction of the look and feel and fascination of Rome is almost beyond praise.”

    —Review of Year of the Gun from the New Yorker

With Gore Vidal, Rome 1980s

With Pat Conroy, Rome 1980s

Linda and Mike, Auribeau-sur-Siagne, 1980s

MEMOIR

  • “The best book about American expat experience since the publication of Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast.”

    —Pat Conroy on Do I Owe You Something?

  • “This is a fond but never less than candid memoir of a defining figure of his times. Graham Greene was calculatedly elusive, but Michael Mewshaw has given us a glimpse behind the altar at the man divested of his vestments.”

    —John Banville

  • “I savored Michael Mewshaw’s funny, gossipy and thoughtful account of his fractious friendship with Graham Greene.”

    —Damon Galgut, on My Man in Antibes

Playing tennis in Spain.

Mike and Linda at Roland Garros, Paris, 2014

TENNIS

  • “One of the best books ever written about tennis – and the most timely.”

    —New York Times review of Short Circuit

  • “Brilliant and brilliantly timed.”

    —Washington Post review of Short Circuit

Mike, Istanbul, 1969

Mike, Egypt, next to the Sphinx, 1969

TRAVEL

  • “Michael Mewshaw writes with a fluency, a spirited calm and an irresistible hunger for the world that seems to issue from a vanished age…if only all travelers were so fearless, so literate, so funny and so wise.”

    —Pico Iyer, on Between Terror and Tourism

TRUE CRIME

  • “What emerges is an account of relentless parental abuse with a large element of sexual sadism that the community, the criminal justice system, and the boy himself in his fear and shame, successfully conspired to conceal."

    —New York Times Book Review of Life for Death.

  • “A book I have recently admired is Life for Death by Michael Mewshaw. Mewshaw tells the tale and describes its pathetic aftermath very movingly and with a fine sense of moral indignation.”

    —William Styron, Quest Magazine