South River Press is the imprint of author J. I. (Jim) Merritt, who for many years was a contributing editor at Field & Stream. He is a former editor of We Proceeded On, the quarterly journal of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, and Princeton University’s alumni magazine. He has written nearly two hundred magazine articles on fishing and the outdoors, the American West, natural history, science, and other subjects for a variety of publications. His books include The Last Buffalo Hunt and Other Stories: Adventures in the Great American Outdoors; Goodbye, Liberty Belle: A Son’s Search for His Father’s War; Trout Dreams: A Gallery of Fly-Fishing Profiles; and Baronets & Buffalo: The British Sportsman in the American West.
He has also written a history of the USS Brister, a destroyer escort he served aboard during the Vietnam War, and compiled and edited three anthologies: The Best of Field & Stream: 100 Years of Great Writing from America’s Premier Sporting Magazine; The Derrydale Press Treasury of Fishing; and The Best of PAW: 100 Years of the Princeton Alumni Weekly.
Merritt and his wife, Nancy, live in Pennington, New Jersey. The name South River Press derives from the colonial-era name for the Delaware River, just a few miles from their home.
