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Mark Merlis
Mark Merlis (March 9, 1950 – August 15, 2017[1]) was an American writer and health policy analyst.[2][3] BiographyBorn in Framingham, Massachusetts on March 9, 1950 and raised in Baltimore, Maryland,[2] Merlis attended Wesleyan University and Brown University.[2] He subsequently took a job with the Maryland Department of Health to support himself while writing.[2] 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.[2] Beginning in the 1990s, Merlis published a series of novels.[2] His first novel, American Studies, was published in 1994[4] and won the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Literature and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction in 1995,[3] and his second, An Arrow's Flight, was published in 1998[5] and won the 1999 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction.[3] He published two further novels during his lifetime, Man About Town in 2003[6] and JD in 2015.[7][8] Merlis lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and worked both as an author and an independent health policy consultant.[3] Illness and deathMerlis died on August 15, 2017, at the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, from pneumonia associated with ALS.[1] He was sixty-seven years old. He is survived by his husband of many years, Robert Ashe.[3] Works
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