Merlis, Mark

LC control no.	n 89143669
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PS3563.E7422
Personal name heading	Merlis, Mark *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated place	Washington (D.C.)
Located	Philadelphia (Pa.)
Birth date	1950-03-09
Death date	2017-08-15
Place of birth	Framingham (Mass.)
Place of death	Philadelphia (Pa.)
Field of activity	Health care reform American fiction Medical policy
Affiliation	Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Profession or occupation	Library employees Novelists
Found in	His Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), 1988: t.p. (Mark Merlis; Educ. and Public Welfare Div., Congressional Res. Serv., Lib. of Cong.) American studies, c1994: CIP t.p. (Mark Merlis) galley (1st novel; CRS staffer specializing in health care reform) Washington post WWW site, viewed Aug. 24, 2017 (Mark Merlis, who debuted as a novelist in his 40s, penning four works of fiction that explored the joys, tensions and agonies of gay life in America in the 20th century, died Aug. 15 [2017] in Philadelphia; he was 67; for much of his adult life, Mr. Merlis earned his livelihood providing health-care analysis for the Library of Congress's Congressional Research Service and, later, as an independent consultant; but since his youth, he had harbored literary ambitions he ultimately realized with the publication of his first novel, "American Studies," in 1994; Mark Lane Merlis was born in Framingham, Mass., on March 9, 1950; worked for the Maryland health department and later for the federal government in the 1980s and 1990s, including on the Ryan White Care Act of 1990 that provided funding for HIV/AIDS services; at the time of his death, Mr. Merlis resided in Philadelphia)
Associated language	eng