Collected Prose

James Merrill; J. D. McClatchy [Editor]; Stephen Yenser [Editor];

ISBN 10: 0375411364 / ISBN 13: 9780375411366

Published by Knopf, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Collected Prose

Publisher: Knopf

Publication Date: 2004

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

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Synopsis:

A definitive compilation of prose works by the distinguished author and poet features essays, interviews, and intimate reminiscences, covering such topics as fellow authors Truman Capote, M. F. K. Fisher, Dante, and Cavafy, as well as reflections on the people and places of Greece, his coming of age as a gay man, his travels in Europe, and his family legacy.

About the Author:

James Merrill was born on March 3, 1926, in New York City 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 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 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.

J. D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser are James Merrill’s literary executors. J. D. McClatchy has published six volumes of poetry and two collections of essays. He teaches at Yale and is the editor of The Yale Review. Stephen Yenser has written three books of criticism (one about Merrill) and a volume of poems. He is a professor of English and the director of Creative Writing at UCLA.

James Merrill’s Collected Poems is available in Knopf paperback. The Voice of the Poet: James Merrill is available from Random House Audio.