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A Short Biography of Thomas Merton

Author Name:

Thomas Merton

Born As:

Thomas Merton

Other Names:

Thomas Merton

Born:

31 Jan 1915

Died:

10 Dec 1968




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Poet, religious writer, Trappist Monk                          
Selected Works:

Thirty Poems - 1944 - New Directions 
A Man in the Divided Sea - 1946
The Seven Storey Mountain - 1948
The Tears of the Blind Lions - 1949
Waters of Siloe - 1949
Seeds of Contemplation - 1949 
The Ascent to Truth - 1951
Bread in the Wilderness - 1953 
The Sign of Jonas - 1953 
The Last of the Fathers - 1954 
The Living Bread - 1956
No Man is an Island - 1955 
The Silent Life - 1957 
Thoughts in Solitude - 1958 
The Secular Journal of Thomas Merton - 1959 
Disputed Questions - 1960
The Behavior of Titans - 1961 
The New Man - 1961
New Seeds of Contemplation - 1962
Original Child Bomb: Points for Meditation to be Scratched on the Walls of a Cave - 1962
Emblems of a Season of Fury - 1963 
Life and Holiness - 1963
Seasons of Celebration - 1965
Seeds of Destruction - 1965
Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander - 1966
Raids on the Unspeakable - 1966 
Redeeming the Time - 1966
Mystics and Zen Masters - 1967
Selected Poems - 1967
Cables to the Ace - 1968
Faith and Violence - 1968
Zen and the Birds of Appetite - 1968
My Argument with the Gestapo - 1969
The Climate of Monastic Prayer - 1969 - republished as Contemplative Prayer - 1996 Contemplative Prayer - 1969
The Geography of Lograire - 1969
The Way of Chuang Tzu - 1969
Contemplation in a World of Action - 1971 
The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton - 1973
Ishi Means Man - 1976
Alaskan Journal of Thomas Merton - 1988 
The Intimate Merton: His Life from His Journals - 1999
Peace in the Post-Christian Era - 2004
A Book of Hours - 2007.                          
Mother Ruth Jenkins
Father Owen Merton