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C.S. Merrill met Georgia O'Keeffe in August, 1973. For the following seven years she served O'Keeffe as librarian, secretary, cook, nurse, companion, confidante, reader, and caregiver. During the experience Merrill kept detailed accounts in her journal. Many of the stories from that time are told in her two books, one in poetry and one a prose transcription of her journal. Both are published by the University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
To view selections from a reading of these books please go to the following link:
https://youtu.be/I9HLs6mUkcQ
Here is an interview with Merrill about her work for Georgia O'Keeffe with special attention to vision:
http://www.visionandartproject.org/authors-forum/interview-carol-merrill-about-georgia-o%E2%80%99keeffe
Merrill lives in New Mexico where she has been a teacher and librarian for 30 years. She was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1946. Merrill has a B.S. from the University of Tulsa and an M.A. from the University of New Mexico. Merrill received the 2010 Zia Award for non-fiction, history/biography from the New Mexico Press Women's organization. She was awarded the 1994 Witter Bynner Foundation Individual Poet grant. Merrill served as poetry apprentice to Allen Ginsberg at Naropa's Jack Kerouac School for Disembodied Poetics for the summer of 1978. In 1979 Merrill's play "Ever Since Yesterday Evening" received a prize from the National Endowment for the Arts, and it was performed for a week in New Mexico.
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