Merritt, Donigan

Henry Donigan Merritt, Jr., was born in southwest Arkansas in 1945. He has worked as a journalist, scuba diver, fishing boat captain, sailing instructor, and university professor. He holds BA and MA degrees in philosophy from Simpson College and the Claremont Graduate School, and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers Workshop. Merritt's first novel, One Easy Piece, was published by Coward-McCann in 1981. Since then, he has published nine novels, most recently The Love Story of Paul Collins, published by B&B Books in 2012. He lives in Mexico City.