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James Douglas Merritt papers

Collection — Box: 4

Identifier: 7744

Scope and content

Personal journals, correspondence, and other personal papers.

Dates

1930-2002.

Creator

Merritt, James Douglas. (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Born Sept. 13, 1934, in Lebanon, N.H., he earned a doctorate in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1964 and served as an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh and then at Brooklyn College, where he became a full professor. He retired in 1995. Merritt and his partner, John Payne Hawker, bought a home in Provincetown, Mass. around 1970, where he spent most summers and made frequent trips in the winter. He died Dec. 23, 2004.