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Full Name: W S Merwin
Biography:
(1927-2019) Poet. W. S. Merwin was born in New York City and died near Haiku-Pauwela, Hawaii. He was the United States poet laureate from 1010 to 2011.
Author's Timeline:
1927 (Unknown) County
William Stanley Merwin was born in New York City on September 30, 1927. 
2019 (Unknown) County
W. S. Merwin died at his home near Haiku-Pauwela, Hawaii, on March 15, 2019. 
1967 (Unknown) County
The Lice
(Pub: Atheneum ISBN: )
Collection of poetry. 
1956 (Unknown) County
Green With Beasts
(Pub: Rupert Hart Davis ISBN: )
Collection of poetry. 
1999 (Unknown) County
The River Sound
(Pub: Knopf ISBN: 0375404863 / 978-0375404863)
Collection of poetry. 
2005 (Unknown) County
Summer Doorways
(Pub: Counterpoint ISBN: 1593760728 / 978-1593760724)
Memoir. 
1952 (Unknown) County
A Mask For Janus
(Pub: Yale University Press ISBN: )
Collection of poetry. 
1992 (Unknown) County
The Lost Upland
(Pub: Alfred A. Knopf ISBN: 0679405269 / 978-0679405269)
Collection of stories. 
1968 New York County
Around 1968, Mr. Merwin moved to New York City and lived in Greenwich Village in Manhattan, New York. 
1971 (Unknown) County
The Carrier of Ladders
(Pub: Atheneum ISBN: 0689103433 / 978-0689103438)
Collection of poetry, winner of a Pulitzer Prize in 1971. 
2015 (Unknown) County
What Is a Garden?
(Pub: University of South Carolina Press ISBN: )
Collection of poems and essays. 
1998 (Unknown) County
The Folding Cliffs
(Pub: Knopf ISBN: 0375401482 / 978-0375401480)
Narrative poem. 
2005 (Unknown) County
Migration: New and Selected Poems
(Pub: Copper Canyon Press ISBN: 1556592188 / 978-1556592188)
Collection of poetry, winner of a National Book Award. 
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