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en-wikipedia-org-7945		James Merrill - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	4905	503	73	My father was merely making money, while my mother wrote names on place-cards, planned menus, and did her needlepoint."[8] Merrill's parents separated when he was eleven, then divorced when he was thirteen.[1] As a teenager, Merrill boarded at the Lawrenceville School, where he befriended future novelist Frederick Buechner, began writing poetry, and undertook early literary collaborations.[1][9] When Merrill was 16 years old, his father collected his short stories and poems and published them as a surprise under the name Jim's Book. The cover of The Changing Light at Sandover, a 560-page epic poem published in 1982, shows the ballroom of "The Orchard," James Merrill's childhood home in The Hamptons in the 1930s. Langdon Hammer, James Merrill: Life and Art (2015) [Review in: The New Yorker, April 13, 2015: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/13/out-of-this-world-books-dan-chiasson]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7945.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7945.txt