Merton Sealts, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 08-Dec-1915
Place of Birth: Lima, Ohio, United States
Date of Death: 04-Jun-2000
Profession: writer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Merton Sealts
- Merton M.
- Sealts Jr.
- (December 8, 1915 – June 4, 2000) was a scholar of American literature, focusing on Ralph Waldo Emerson and Herman Melville.
- His most important works are the genetic edition of Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor (1962, co-edited with Harrison Hayford), Pursuing Melville, 1940–1980 (1982) and Melville's Reading (1966, revised edition 1988).
- He taught at Lawrence College (1948–1965), and became Henry A.
- Pochmann Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1965-1982).
- He won both Ford Foundation and Guggenheim Fellowships.
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