Thomas Merton Book Review
Cunningham, Lawrence S. A Search for Solitude: The Journals of Thomas Merton Volume Three 1952-1960. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 1997. (394 pp)
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Thomas Merton was born on January 31, 1915, in France. His father was an artist from New Zealand and his mother a Quaker from the United States. He lost his mother at age six and father at age sixteen. After a disastrous first year at Cambridge University, during which time he fathered an illegitimate child, Merton moved to the United States to live with his grandparents. There he gained his bachelors and masters degrees at Columbia University in New York City. Merton was converted to Catholicism in his early twenties while writing his thesis on William Blake.
He entered the monastery at the Trappist Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Kentucky in December 1941. During his years there, Merton wrote more than fifty books, two thousand poems and a countless number of essays, reviews and lectures that......
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