James Merrill
Author · 22 books
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 (1946) through A Scattering of Salts (1995), he wrote twelve books of poems, ten of them published in trade editions, as well as The Changing Light at Sandover (1982). He also published two plays, The Immortal Husband (1956) and The Bait (1960); two novels, The Seraglio (1957, reissued in 1987) and The (Diblos) Notebook (1965, reissued 1994); a book of essays, interviews, and reviews, Recitative (1986); and a memoir, A Different Person (1993). 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
A Different Person
A Memoir
1993
The Inner Room
1988
The Book of Ephraim
2017
The Voice of the Poet
James Merrill
1999
Selected Poems, 1946-1985
1992
Collected Novels and Plays
2002
The Seraglio
1987
From the First Nine Poems, 1946-76
1982
The Fire Screen
1969
Nights and Days
1966
A Whole World
Letters from James Merrill
2021
Water Street
1962
Merrill
Poems: Edited by Langdon Hammer
2017
Late Settings
1985
Recitative
1986
Selected Poems of James Merrill
1961
Contemporary American Poetry
1962
The (Diblos) Notebook
1965
Divine Comedies
Poems
1976
Collected Poems
2001
A Scattering of Salts
1995
The Changing Light at Sandover
1982
