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James Merrill

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Gender Male
Death29 years ago
Date of birth March 3,1926
Zodiac sign Pisces
Born New York
United States
Date of died February 6,1995
DiedTucson
Arizona
United States
Partners David Noyes Jackson
Peter Hooten
Job Poet
Author
Philanthropist
Playwright
Novelist
Education St. Bernard's School
Amherst College
The Lawrenceville School
Awards Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Bollingen Prize
National Book Award for Poetry
Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry
Notabl award National Book Award
Parents Charles E. Merrill
Hellen Ingram Merrill
Siblings Charles E. Merrill Jr.
Doris Merrill
Influences W. H. Auden
Elizabeth Bishop
Wallace Stevens
Marcel Proust
Constantine P. Cavafy
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Date of Upd.
ID438191

The Changing Light at Sandover
The Book of Ephraim
A Scattering of Salts
Divine Comedies
A Different Person: A Memoir
Collected Poems
James Merrill Poems
Mirabell: Books of Number
The Inner Room
Collected Novels and Plays
The (Diblos) Notebook
Scripts for the Pageant
Selected Poems 1946-1985
The Seraglio
Braving the Elements
Late Settings
Selected Poems
James Merrill: Selected Poems
The Fire Screen: Poems
Voices from the Other World
Lost in Translation
James Merrill
Recitative: Prose
The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace, and Other Poems
Two Poems: From the Cupola and The Summer People
Water Street
The Yellow Pages: 59 Poems
Self-portrait in Tyvek Windbreaker and Other Poems
Santorini: Stopping the Leak
Marbled Paper
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James Ingram Merrill was an American poet. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1977 for Divine Comedies.

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