15 Facts About Merrill Moore

Merrill Moore was an American psychiatrist and poet.

Merrill Moore taught neurology at the Harvard Medical School and published research about alcoholism.

Merrill Moore was the author of many collections of poetry.

Merrill Moore's father, John Trotwood Moore, was a novelist and local historian who served as the State Librarian and Archivist from 1919 to 1929.

Merrill Moore's paternal grandfather was a lawyer from Marion, Alabama, who served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Merrill Moore attended Vanderbilt University, where he became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.

Merrill Moore joined the Fugitives, a group of then unknown poets who met to read and criticize each other's poems.

Merrill Moore interned at the Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville for a year.

Merrill Moore taught neurology at the Harvard Medical School and the Boston City Hospital.

On September 22,1942, Merrill Moore gave a speech about Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf entitled What Hitler means in "Mein Kampf" at the Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Aurora, Colorado; a year later, it was reprinted in Military Surgeon.

Merrill Moore served as Lieutenant-Colonel in Nanking, where he was "director of medical operations".

Merrill Moore was the recipient of the Bronze Star Medal for his war service.

Merrill Moore was a close friend of one of the psychiatrists on a diagnostic panel that found Pound unfit to stand trial.

Merrill Moore discovered his affinity for the sonnet form while still in secondary school and is said to have learned shorthand during college in order to be able to write more sonnets between classes.

Merrill Moore died of cancer on September 21,1957, in Boston, Massachusetts.