He was the son of Charles Merrill, co-founder of the brokerage firm Merrill Lynch, and his second wife, Hellen Ingram.
JamesMerrill's second novel, The (Diblos) Notebook (1965) was a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction, and the following year his Nights and Days won the National Book Award in Poetry.
JamesMerrill died of a heart attack, at the age of sixty-eight, while on vacation in Arizona.
James Ingram Merrill was born in New York City on March 3, 1926, the son of Charles Merrill, co-founder of the brokerage firm Merrill Lynch, and his second wife, Hellen Ingram.
Merrill's second novel The (Diblos) Notebook, published in 1965, was a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction and in 1966 his Nights and Days won the National Book Award in Poetry.
JamesMerrill served as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1979 until his death on February 6, 1995, of a heart attack while vacationing in Arizona.
JamesMerrill, who won many awards including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976, was one of America’s great poets.
The building at 107 Water Street, where JamesMerrill lived and wrote for over forty years, is a source of inspiration for poets and writers who themselves are allowed to live and work there.
Furthermore, the use of the building to nurture the creative efforts of others is consistent with the efforts JamesMerrill himself made to help other artists during his lifetime.
Remarks made at the dedication of the JamesMerrill Reading Room in the Richard W. Woolworth Library of the Stonington Historical Society, June 20, 1998.
How blessed were we, the Village of Stonington and all of us, to have been able to know and love James Ingram Merrill.
In addition, he established the Merrill Ingram Foundation to help young poets financially, as well as giving of his time and effort.
Loose ends have been tied up for the least senior of four former Merrill Lynch and Co. executives whose Enron-related fraud and conspiracy convictions were thrown out this year by an appeals panel.
Nearly two years ago, a jury convicted Fuhs, three other former Merrill executives and a former Enron finance executive of fraud and conspiracy for their roles in a sham sale of assets in late 1999 so the energy company could appear to have met earnings targets.
One of the Merrill defendants, James Brown, also was convicted of obstruction of justice and perjury for lying to a grand jury about the deal.
JamesMerrill’s audacious and dazzling epic poem, The Changing Light at Sandover, remains as startling today as when it first emerged in separate volumes over a period of several years.
Written with her characteristic grace, novelist Alison Lurie's memoir of her friendship with the poet JamesMerrill and his companion David Jackson offers more than reminiscences, though these are tender, frank, and perceptive.
JamesMerrill, the son of Merrill Lynch cofounder Charles Lynch, rose from a privileged but unsettled childhood to become one of the leading lyrical poets of the 20th century.
James Redfield, writer, lecturer and counselor, has created a phenomenon: a book that has been passed from hand to hand, from friend to friend, since it first appeared in small bookshops across America.
James Redfield's phenomenal bestseller The Celestine Prophecy introduced the world to the Nine Insights that lead to a new spiritual awakening, and ended with the promise of more Insights still to be discovered.
The effect is a "conversational" interlude with James Redfield about the ways in which your past has been a preparation for the special contribution you make to the world.
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There was a lot of attention given to Merrill when his Collected Poems came out, so I went out and read it.
Merrill doesn't need another admirer, but my gratitude compels me to write.
Merrill is often at his best in this collection - a must for his fans.
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Three former Merrill Lynch (MER.N: Quote, Profile, Research) bankers, who had the bulk of their convictions related to a bogus deal with Enron Corp. overturned in August, have talked to the government in an effort to avoid a second trial, their lawyers said in a hearing on Friday.
Lawyers for Daniel Bayly, Robert Furst and James Brown told U.S. District Judge Ewing Werlein in Houston that they would like to resolve the case without a second trial.
The three men were convicted in November 2004 of conspiracy and fraud charges connected to the sham sale in 1999 of three electricity-producing barges in Nigeria by Enron to Merrill.
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by James Wright (Author), Christopher Merrill (Afterword), Joan Root (Illustrator), Anne Wright (Introduction)
The Changing Light at Sandover: Including the Whole of the Book of Ephraim, Mirabell's Books of Number, Scripts for the Pageant and a New Coda, the Higher Keys (Changing Light at Sandover CL)
