Eve Merriam
Eve Merriam (July 19, 1916 – April 11, 2001) was an American poet and writer.
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[edit] Writing career
Merriam's first book was the 1946 Family Circle, which won the Yale Younger Poets Prize.[1]
Her book, The Inner City Mother Goose, was described as one of the most banned books of the time.[2] It inspired a 1971 Broadway musical called Inner City and a 1982 musical production called Street Dreams.[2] In 1981 she won the NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children.[2] She published a total of 88 books[citation needed].
[edit] Personal life
Born as Eva Moskovitz in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she was married for a time to writer Leonard C. Lewin. She later married screenwriter Waldo Salt and was actress Jennifer Salt's stepmother.
[edit] Death
Merriam died on April 11, 1992 in Manhattan from cancer. She was 76 when she died.
[edit] References
[edit] Core Biographical Material
- "Eve Merriam, Poet and Author Who Wrote for Children, Is Dead," Bruce Lambert, The New York Times, April 13, 1992.
- Heffer, Helen Ruth Julian. A Checklist of Works by and about Eve Merriam. Master’s thesis, University of Maryland, 1980. Includes 84-page biographcial essay.
- Copeland, J. S., Speaking of Poets: Interviews with Poets Who Write for Children and Young Adults (1993).
- short biography from Wisconsin Writers' Collection at MITH
- Biography at Jewish Women's Archive
- Anne Commire, ed. “Eve Merriam.” In Something About the Author, vol. 40. Detrolt: Gale Research Co., 1985.
[edit] In other works
- Randy Shilts. The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life &Times of Harvey Milk (New York: St. Martins, 1982).
- Kate Weigand. Red Feminism: American Communism and the Making of Women’s Liberation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001).
[edit] Archival Materials
- Finding Aid for holdings related to Eve Merriam in the University of Minnesota Libraries Children's Literature Research Collection
- Holdings in The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, at Radcliffe. See
- Finding Aids for papers, additional papers, further papers
- Finding Aids for audiovisual materials
[edit] Notes
- ^ Biography of Eve Merriam at the Poetry Foundation
- ^ a b c Biography of Eve Merriam at the Academy of American Poets http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/159
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