Kountz, Peter. Preface by Martin E. Marty

THOMAS MERTON AS WRITER AND MONK. A Cultural Study, 1915 - 1951.

Brooklyn, NY: Carlson Publishing Inc., 1991. 1st edition. Hardcover. 1st edition, 1991. A Near Fine book lacking dust jacket. 8vo., 208 pp., bound in publishers orange cloth. Lower tips bumped, previous owners bookplate inside front cover. Text appears unmarked. Near Fine. Item #36952
ISBN: 0926019481

Thomas Merton OCSO, religious name M. Louis, was an American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist and scholar of comparative religion. He was a monk in the Trappist Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, near Bardstown, Kentucky, living there from 1941 to his death.

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