Tapes of events sponsored by the Thomas Merton studies center, 1967-1980.

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Tapes of events sponsored by the Thomas Merton studies center, 1967-1980.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191918328

This series is composed of tapes of events which were sponsored by the Thomas Merton Studies Center and held in the Louisville area. The tapes include reminisces of Merton by his friends; lectures and interviews.

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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...