A Different Person (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: James Merrill
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: Mostly 1950-1952
- Setting: Europe and the United States
- Principal Characters: James Merrill, Charles Merrill, Hellen Plummer, Claude Fredericks, Dr. Detre
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Traveling or travelers, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Europe or Europeans, Poetry or poets, Psychoanalysis or psychoanalysts
- Locales: Europe, United States
James Merrill is one of America’s most critically acclaimed living poets, having received, among many other honors, two National Book Awards, for Nights and Days (1966) and Mirabell (1978), the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, for Braving the Elements (1972), and the Pulitzer Prize, for Divine Comedies (1976). His prodigious literary output has also included fiction, drama, and essays. With A Different Person: A Memoir, Merrill turns to yet another genre, and with remarkable success. His first strictly autobiographical work, A Different Person is a...
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