James Merrill (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
James Ingram Merrill was one of the most accessible poets of the twentieth century. A worldly man with something of a “playboy” image—due, in part, to having been born to Charles Edward Merrill, the cofounder of the prestigious brokerage house Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner, and Smith—he was educated at Lawrenceville School, a private New Jersey institution, where his gift for writing led his father to have a collection of his poems, essays, and stories published under the title Jim’s Book. He served in the Army in 1944-1945 and graduated from Amherst College in 1947....
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