Eve Merriam
Eve Merriam
Eve was born on July 9, 1916. Her parent’s names were Max and Jennie Siegel Moskovitz. She was married four times. She had two sons named Guy and Dee.
She attended the Cornell for two years then graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1973 and moved to New York to attend Columbia University. In the early 1940’s she worked in New York City as a copywriter and feature editor on fashion magazines. She published a book on the fashion industry called Figleaf: The Business of Being in Fashion in 1960. She also had a job as a writer for radio. From 1942 to 1946 she was a moderator of a weekly radio program on poetry. A long-sought goal was reached in 1946 when her first book, Family Circle, and won the Yale Series of Younger Poets award.
Eve’s name was not always Eve Merriam. Her name was originally Eva Moskovitz. While living in New York, her career as a poet was not working out, so she agreed with one of her professors to change her last name to Merriam which was borrowed from the Merriam Webster dictionary.
She has written more than 60 books and plays for children and adults. The two things that motivated her was her love of language and wordplay and a concern for social justice. Merriam 's delight in the joy of language made her surprisingly successful as both poet and educator. In her work she never spoke down to children, but offered them ideas to imagine. She had a political outlook, and concern for social justice, and she had a great anger at society 's failure to overcome the prejudices of race and gender infuse her writing. In the 1950s, she wrote about the civil rights struggle.
From the early 1970s on, Merriam was deeply involved with theater projects. In this mocking feminist commentary, played in an "exclusive men 's club" in 1903. When male bigot behavior and teasing were going on. Merriam made her shocking point by casting women, dressed in formal male attire, in all the roles. In the last year of her life, she
Eve was born on July 9, 1916. Her parent’s names were Max and Jennie Siegel Moskovitz. She was married four times. She had two sons named Guy and Dee.
She attended the Cornell for two years then graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1973 and moved to New York to attend Columbia University. In the early 1940’s she worked in New York City as a copywriter and feature editor on fashion magazines. She published a book on the fashion industry called Figleaf: The Business of Being in Fashion in 1960. She also had a job as a writer for radio. From 1942 to 1946 she was a moderator of a weekly radio program on poetry. A long-sought goal was reached in 1946 when her first book, Family Circle, and won the Yale Series of Younger Poets award.
Eve’s name was not always Eve Merriam. Her name was originally Eva Moskovitz. While living in New York, her career as a poet was not working out, so she agreed with one of her professors to change her last name to Merriam which was borrowed from the Merriam Webster dictionary.
She has written more than 60 books and plays for children and adults. The two things that motivated her was her love of language and wordplay and a concern for social justice. Merriam 's delight in the joy of language made her surprisingly successful as both poet and educator. In her work she never spoke down to children, but offered them ideas to imagine. She had a political outlook, and concern for social justice, and she had a great anger at society 's failure to overcome the prejudices of race and gender infuse her writing. In the 1950s, she wrote about the civil rights struggle.
From the early 1970s on, Merriam was deeply involved with theater projects. In this mocking feminist commentary, played in an "exclusive men 's club" in 1903. When male bigot behavior and teasing were going on. Merriam made her shocking point by casting women, dressed in formal male attire, in all the roles. In the last year of her life, she
Bibliography: April 8, 2011 Catch A Little Rhyme