Thomas Merton and James Laughton: Selected Letters

by Thomas Merton and James Laughlin

Book Overview

Thomas Merton may have seemed an unlikely candidate for a best-selling author. Cloistered in a remote Kentucky monastery, Merton struggled as a young man to reconcile the contemplative life he sought as a monk and his very public passion for writing. Publisher James Laughlin saw Merton's talent and played the muse, encouraging him with the poems, essays, and diaries of other writers and publishing nearly everything Merton sent in return.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393340031
• ISBN13: 9780393340037
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 434 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"