C. S. Merrill

About The Author

C. S. Merrill worked for Georgia O'Keeffe from 1973 to 1979 as secretary, librarian, reader, cook, nurse, and companion. Merrill is also the author of Weekends with O'Keeffe (UNM Press). She is a poet, storyteller, and librarian in New Mexico.

Books by C. S. Merrill

O'Keeffe

Days in a Life

By C. S. Merrill
“Carol Merrill’s tribute to Georgia O’Keeffe is poems in the shape of finely rendered sketches, some of them even paintings. These intimate images convey the delicate and tough shape of O’Keeffe’s final years in New Mexico.”—Joy Harjo, author of She Had Some Horses“When I got O’Keeffe mss I sat d...
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Weekends with O'Keeffe
By C. S. Merrill
Winner of the 2012 Zia Award from New Mexico Press WomenIn 1973 Georgia O'Keeffe employed C. S. Merrill to catalog her library for her estate. Merrill, a poet who was a graduate student at the University of New Mexico, was twenty-six years old and O'Keeffe was eighty-five, almost blind, but still...
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