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A Different Person: A Memoir

by James Merrill · 1993

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James Merrill—winner of the Pulitzer and National Book Award—is one of America's most celebrated poets. This acclaimed memoir—nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award—traces Merrill's painful yet often hilarious life as a young man. "Stands with Merrill's finest work".— Los Angeles Times Book Review.

Subject
biography
Setting
20th century
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 271 pages
Form
poetry

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