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James Merrill

Country

United States

Birth - Death

1926 - 1995

Occupation

Playwright

Notable Achievements

Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award

Description

Most widely known as 'The Ouija poet' for his narrative poems that record the Ouija board sessions he and a friend conducted with 'spirits from another world'. Twice winner of National Book Award, for `Nights and Days` (1967) and 'Mirabell: Books of Number' (1978).. Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for 'Divine Comedies'.

Further Research/Reading