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James Merrill

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Born: March 02 1926

Died: 0505 02 19951995

James Ingram Merrill was born on March 3, 1926, and died on February 6, 1995. From the mid-1950s on, he lived in Stonington, Connecticut, and for extended periods he also had houses in Athens and Key West. From The Black Swan through A Scattering of Salts , he wrote twelve books of poems, ten of them published in trade editions, as well as The Changing Light at Sandover . He also published two plays, The Immortal Husband and The Bait ; two novels, The Seraglio and The Notebook ; a book of essays, interviews, and reviews, Recitative ; and a memoir, A Different Person . Over the years, he was the winner of numerous awards for his poetry, including two National Book Awards, the Bollingen Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the first Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress. He was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

James Merrill

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Born: March 02 1926

Died: 0505 02 19951995

James Ingram Merrill was born on March 3, 1926, and died on February 6, 1995. From the mid-1950s on, he lived in Stonington, Connecticut, and for extended periods he also had houses in Athens and Key West. From The Black Swan through A Scattering of Salts , he wrote twelve books of poems, ten of them published in trade editions, as well as The Changing Light at Sandover . He also published two plays, The Immortal Husband and The Bait ; two novels, The Seraglio and The Notebook ; a book of essays, interviews, and reviews, Recitative ; and a memoir, A Different Person . Over the years, he was the winner of numerous awards for his poetry, including two National Book Awards, the Bollingen Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the first Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress. He was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Books from James Merrill

The Changing Light at Sandover

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Eight American Poets: An Anthology

A Scattering of Salts

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Selected Poems, 1946-1985

A Different Person: A Memoir

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Divine Comedies

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Nights and Days

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Book of Ephraim

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Braving the Elements

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Ploughshares Winter 1985

4.6/5 ( ratings)

A Whole World: Letters from James Merrill

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Terms to Be Met

Late Settings: Poems

Mirabell: Books of Number

Collected Prose

Two Poems: From The Cupola And The Summer People

The Fire Screen: Poems

Ploughshares Summer 1979

The (Diblos) Notebook

Collected Poems