Nicholas Meyer reads at Prairie Lights

Writer, producer, director and novelist Nicholas Meyer graduated from the University of Iowa in 1968 with a B.A. in theatre and filmmaking. Meyer is best known for his involvement in the Star Trek films, writing and/or directing the acclaimed second, fourth and sixth films in the series. Meyer is also well known as the director for the landmark 1983 TV-Movie The Day After, for which he was nominated for a Best Director Emmy Award. In 1977, Meyer was nominated for an Adapted Screenplay Academy Award for adapting his own 1974 novel, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, to the screen.

Other films Meyer has either written or directed include 'Elegy' (2008), 'The Informant' (1997), 'Sommersby' (1993), 'Company Business' (1991), 'Vendetta' (1999),

Meyer adapted a Philip Roth novel for 'The Human Stain' in 2003. He teamed up with film producer Martin Scorsese in 2006 to write the screen play for Scorsese's adaptation of the Edmund Morris biography of Theodore Roosevelt, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, which won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize. Leonardo DiCaprio, who worked with Scorsese on Gangs of New York, The Aviator, and The Departed, currently is slated to play Roosevelt in this movie.

Meyer visited Iowa City's Prairie Lights Bookstore in September 2009 to read from 'The View From The Bridge: Memories of Star Trek and A Life In Hollywood'.

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[sserpent21]

I love the Standards and Practices meeting discussion.

I wish George Lucas would have listened to 56:11 when he decided to make the Special Editions.

[AVDK1232]

I really liked reading his book, I really recommend it and he's a terrific writer and director.

[WhiteArmy1918]

I just finished reading this author's book "The View from the Bridge",it's one of the best Hollywood books I've ever read,I highly recomend it.