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ABOUT
JAMES MERRILL

James Ingram Merrill was an American writer of poetry, essays, fiction, and plays. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1977. He purchased 107 Water Street in 1956 and left it to the Stonington Village Improvement Association (SVIA) when he died in 1995.

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WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM

Learn about our Writer-In-Residence program, find out what it’s like to live and work in the James Merrill House, and find information about our Residency. The residency provides living and working space to a writer to complete a project of literary or academic merit.

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ABOUT
THE HOUSE

A National Historic Landmark in Stonington, Connecticut, the 1901 James Merrill House is a late-Victorian commercial & residential building significant for its forty-one-year association with American poet James Ingram Merrill. Learn more about 107 Water Street.

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NEWS & EVENTS

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Our events are all recorded live online on our Youtube Channel and Facebook page. View our archive & learn more about upcoming events. Read about the events, and more, in our newsletters.

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Since 1995, the James Merrill House has hosted over 100 writers to live and work here and to share their writing with the community in free lectures and readings. Your donation will keep the literary legacy of James Merrill alive.

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