James Merrill
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James Ingram Merrill was an American poet. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1977 for Divine Comedies. His poetry falls into two distinct bodies of work: the polished and formalist lyric
Merrill in 1973
James Merrill and David Jackson in Athens, Greece, October 1973 (photo: Judith Moffett)
James Merrill with actor Peter Hooten, his partner from 1983 to 1995 (photo: Judith Moffett)
The cover of The Changing Light at Sandover, a 560-page epic poem published in 1982, shows the ballroom of "The Orchard," James Merrill's childhood home in The Hamptons in the 1930s.
Charles E. Merrill
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Charles Edward Merrill was an American philanthropist, stockbroker, and co-founder, with Edmund C. Lynch, of Merrill Lynch.
James Merrill
…career. Although most of his published work was poetry, he also wrote essays, fiction, and plays. James Ingram Merrill was born in New York City, to Charles E. Merrill (1885–1956), the founding partner of the Merrill Lynch investment firm, and Hellen Ingram Merrill (1898–2000), a society reporter and publisher from…
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