Thomas Merton as Writer and Monk

Kountz concentrates on a limited time period 1915 (Merton's birth) to 1951, which comprises Merton's premonastic life and his first 10 years as a monk, in order to determine why and how Merton became a writer and why and how his writing influenced and guided his conversion to Catholicism and his entrance into Gethsemani. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.