Newspaper clippings on Thomas Merton, 1949-1974.

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Newspaper clippings on Thomas Merton, 1949-1974.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191918302

This collection, composed of newsclippings, documents newspaper coverage of: Thomas Merton's books; his life and religious vocation; some of associates; his accidental death while in Thailand; and Bellarmine Collegeand the Thomas Merton Studies Center.

700 items.

Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives, Kentucky Guide Project Office

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Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968

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Thomas Merton was born on January 31, 1915 in Prades, France to Owen Merton (an artist from New Zealand) and Ruth Jenkins Merton (an artist from the United States), and grew up in New York, Bermuda, France, and England. Merton studied both in Europe and America, and he received a BA and an MA in journalism from Columbia University in 1938 and 1939. In 1938, Merton converted to Catholicism. He taught for two years at St. Bonaventure College in New York before entering the Abbey of Gethsemani i...