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Mark Merlis (March 9, 1950 – August 15, 2017) was an American writer and health policy analyst. Born in Framingham, Massachusetts and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Merlis attended Wesleyan University and Brown University. He subsequently took a job with the Maryland Department of Health to support himself while writing. In 1987, he took a job with the Congressional Research Service at the Library of Congress as a social legislation specialist, and was involved in the creation of the Ryan White Care Act.

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rdfs:comment	Mark Merlis (* 9. März 1950 in Framingham, Massachusetts; † 15. August 2017 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) war ein US-amerikanischer Autor. (de) Mark Merlis é um consultor de seguros e escritor norte-americano, autor dos livros American Studies (1995), premiado com o Los Angeles Times book prize, com o Art Seidenbaum award for first fiction em 1996 e com o Ferro-Grumley award for distinction in gay writing em 1996, An Arrow's Flight (1998), que recebeu o prémio Lambda Literary Award na categoria Gay Men’s Fiction em 1998, e Man About Town (2004). Mark escreve crítica literária e vive actualmente em New Hope, na Pennsylvania, com o seu companheiro dos últimos 25 anos, Bob. (pt) Mark Merlis (March 9, 1950 – August 15, 2017) was an American writer and health policy analyst. Born in Framingham, Massachusetts and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Merlis attended Wesleyan University and Brown University. He subsequently took a job with the Maryland Department of Health to support himself while writing. In 1987, he took a job with the Congressional Research Service at the Library of Congress as a social legislation specialist, and was involved in the creation of the Ryan White Care Act. (en)
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has abstract	Mark Merlis (* 9. März 1950 in Framingham, Massachusetts; † 15. August 2017 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) war ein US-amerikanischer Autor. (de) Mark Merlis (March 9, 1950 – August 15, 2017) was an American writer and health policy analyst. Born in Framingham, Massachusetts and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Merlis attended Wesleyan University and Brown University. He subsequently took a job with the Maryland Department of Health to support himself while writing. In 1987, he took a job with the Congressional Research Service at the Library of Congress as a social legislation specialist, and was involved in the creation of the Ryan White Care Act. Beginning in the 1990s, Merlis published a series of novels. His first novel, American Studies, was published in 1994 and won the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Literature and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction in 1995, and his second, An Arrow's Flight, was published in 1998 and won the 1999 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction. He published two further novels during his lifetime, Man About Town in 2003 and JD in 2015. Merlis lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and worked both as an author and an independent health policy consultant. He died on August 15, 2017, at the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, from pneumonia associated with ALS. He was 67 years old. He is survived by his husband of many years, Robert Ashe. (en) Mark Merlis é um consultor de seguros e escritor norte-americano, autor dos livros American Studies (1995), premiado com o Los Angeles Times book prize, com o Art Seidenbaum award for first fiction em 1996 e com o Ferro-Grumley award for distinction in gay writing em 1996, An Arrow's Flight (1998), que recebeu o prémio Lambda Literary Award na categoria Gay Men’s Fiction em 1998, e Man About Town (2004). Mark escreve crítica literária e vive actualmente em New Hope, na Pennsylvania, com o seu companheiro dos últimos 25 anos, Bob. (pt)
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