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Elliott Merrick was an educator and author was born in Montclair, N.J., and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale University. He tried newspaper work in Passaic, N.J., and a lucrative advertising job in Manhattan and hated both.

His next stop was the Grenfell Mission's northernmost school on the desolate Labrador coast. He traveled to interior lakes and rivers and wrote of the region's inhabitants in Front and Fire (1939).