He took graduate art courses at Columbia University in 1970, and received an MFA in Painting in 1973 at Boston University's Master of Fine Arts program. Meyer received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of Florida in 1964. He saw no combat during his tour of duty, which included ports of call in Italy, France, Spain, and Malta. He became an officer after four months, assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet. He has said he did it to avoid death in a foxhole.
ĭuring the Vietnam War Meyer joined the U.S. Army bases in Germany and the American east coast, attended high school in Pennsylvania and Florida, college in Florida, and then hitchhiked through Mexico and the American Southwest before joining the military. Their mother was also a teacher before dedicating herself to the family's businesses and researching historical points for her husband's novels. Like their father, both men are painters and teachers. They have two sons, Matthew and Nathaniel. He married his college sweetheart, Annetje Lawrence, in 1966.
Since 1984, he and his wife have owned an art gallery called Clair de Loon in Bar Harbor, where they sell matted and framed prints of his artwork. Meyer was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania and currently lives in Corea, Maine.
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