Stuart Merrill

Stuart Fitzrandolph Merrill (August 1, 1863 in Hempstead, New York[1] – December 1, 1915 in Versailles, France) was an American poet, who wrote mostly in the French language.

In 1866, his father George received a diplomatic appointment to Paris, where Merrill would learn French and live for the next 19 years.

Merrill ran a weekly journal, Le fou, before returning to the States in 1884 to attend law school.

[1] On April 15, 1887, he went to Madison Square Theater in New York to hear Walt Whitman give his famous "Death of Abraham Lincoln" lecture.

"[2] Also in 1887, Merrill published his first book of poems, Les gammes, in Paris, receiving wide critical acclaim in Europe.