{"id":3098,"date":"2015-05-14T22:21:03","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T03:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/?p=3098"},"modified":"2015-05-14T22:21:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T03:21:03","slug":"merriam-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/merriam-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Merriam, Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"ae_table alignright\" style=\"width: auto; height: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3099 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/ph_merr.jpg\" alt=\"Eve Merriam\" width=\"144\" height=\"168\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3100 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bk_low.jpg\" alt=\"Low Song\" width=\"150\" height=\"135\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3101 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bk_inner.jpg\" alt=\"Inner City Mother Goose\" width=\"110\" height=\"192\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3102 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bk_12.jpg\" alt=\"12 Ways to Get to 11\" width=\"141\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bk_12.jpg 141w, https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bk_12-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 141px) 100vw, 141px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p class=\"text10pt\"><span class=\"text10ptbold\">Born on July 19, 1916 in Philadelphia, poet Eve Merriam<\/span> <span class=\"text10pt\">was also a playwright, director, and lecturer. She attended Cornell, the Universities of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, and Columbia. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text10pt\"><span class=\"text10pt\">Her first book was <i>Family Circle<\/i>, published in 1946. It was selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets by Archibald MacLeish. Her book<i> Inner City Mother Goose<\/i> was the basis for a 1971 Broadway musical and Merriam called it &#8220;just about the most banned book in the country.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text10pt\"><span class=\"text10pt\">She had a radio program about poetry and taught at City College in New York City. Eve Merriam died in 1992.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ae-byline\">\u2014 Vicki Palmquist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born on July 19, 1916 in Philadelphia, poet Eve Merriam was also a playwright, director, and lecturer. She attended Cornell, the Universities of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, and Columbia. Her first book was Family Circle, published in 1946. It was selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets by Archibald MacLeish. 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