Merkel, Jim

St. Louis-based freelance writer and author Jim Merkel fell in love with lighthouses in 1995, when he and his wife, Lorraine, made the first of numerous visits to the Apostle Islands. He started writing The Lighthouse on Devils Island around 1997 and basically finished it in 2003. The book stayed unread in a computer file until 2015, when he tweaked the manuscript and self-published it. In 2001, he published Majestic Lights: The Apostle Islands Lighthouses, a nonfiction book about the lighthouses of the Apostle Islands. He is the author of three books published by the traditional royalty publi...