BIOGRAPHY FELLOW 2012 – 2013

Langdon Hammer

For a biography of James Merrill

Langdon Hammer, Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University, earned his BA and PhD from Yale. A former Guggenheim fellow, he is the author of Hart Crane and Allen Tate: Janus-Faced Modernism, and editor of O My Land, My Friends: The Selected Letters of Hart Crane, the Library of America’s Hart Crane: Complete Poems and Selected Letters, and May Swenson: Collected Poems. His reviews of new poetry and literary criticism have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Raritan, and The Yale Review, among other magazines, and he is poetry editor of The American Scholar. As a Leon Levy fellow he completed work on his biography James Merrill: Life and Art, published by Knopf in April 2015.