|
|
Article: Meditations of a Man With an Uncaged Mind After 50 years, new life for Thomas Merton's work.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Newsweek
- Article date:
- September 14, 1998
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1998 Newsweek, Inc. All rights reserved. Any reuse, distribution or alteration without express written permission of Newsweek is prohibited. For permission: www.newsweek.com. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
On Oct. 4, 1948, harcourt brace published the spiritual autobiography of a young Roman Catholic convert, Thomas Merton. It captured readers like few books since Saint Augustine's "Confessions." In its first year alone, "The Seven Storey Mountain," which ends with Merton's entry into a Trappist monastery, sold more than 600,000 copies in hardback--this despite the fact that The New York Times refused to put it on its best-seller list because it was a religious book. Two decades and some 50 volumes later, Merton died in December of what he called this "brute of a year": 1968. His own bizarre death after the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy (both ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
|
|
Article: Thomas Merton, the restless ...
Quadrant;
September 1, 2004 ;
700+ words
...THOMAS MERTON, the best-known Trappist monk of all ... published, and there is even a recent Thomas Merton Encyclopedia. Doctoral theses, reviews ... of Notre Dame University, Indiana. Thomas Merton was born at Prades in the French Pyrenees ...
|
|