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1993
Travels
Alfred A. Knopf
$25,000
Gerald Stern
Deborah Digges
Stephen Dunn
William Stanley Merwin was born in New York City on September 30, 1927. He attended Princeton University on a scholarship. After graduating in 1948, he spent an additional year at Princeton studying Romance language.
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