Elliott Merrick was an educator and author was born in Montclair, N.J., and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale University. He tried newspaper work in Passaic, N.J., and a lucrative advertising job in Manhattan and hated both.
His next stop was the Grenfell Mission's northernmost school on the desolate Labrador coast. He traveled to interior lakes and rivers and wrote of the region's inhabitants in Front and Fire (1939).[1]
Bibliography
edit- True North : a journey into unexplored wilderness (1933)
- From this hill look down (1934)
- Ever the winds blow (1936)
- Frost and fire
- Northern nurse
- Passing by
- Green mountain farm