Michael M. George was Program Officer for the Council on Leaders and Specialists (CLS) and writes from Washington, D.C. He was trying to arrange for Dr. Alberto Caturelli, an Argentine philosopher, to meet Merton. Merton agreed but Dr. Caturelli later cancelled due to a heavy schedule.
Sandra George writes as Librarian for the Bruce Publishing Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Fr. Georges was a member of the Trappist monastery of Our Lady of Orval in Belgium.
Fr. Gerard was a Trappist monk of Genesee Abbey in Piffard, New York.
Sr. Marie Germaine Du Sacre Coeur was a Dominican from Oullins, France.
Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist and brother of composer George Gershwin.
Sr. Gertrude Anne was a Sister of the Holy Cross writing from St. Mary's Convent in Notre Dame, Indiana.
Fr. Afonso Gessinger was a Jesuit priest from Curitiba, Brazil.
Aly Abdel Ghani writes from Alexandria, Egypt.
Robert Ghelardi writes from South Bend, Indiana.
Dom Anselmo Giabbani was Prior General of the Camaldolese and writes from Italy. He served as Camaldolese Prior General from 1951-1963. He died in 2004 at the age of 96.
Therese Giahieu writes from Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
Robert Gibney was one of Merton's closest friends from Columbia University. He filed as a conscientious objector for World War II, but was drafted. He married another of Merton's friends after the war, Nancy Flagg, who was a graduate of Smith College in Boston. (Source: The Thomas Merton Encyclopedia, pp. 178-179.)
Jane Gibson was writing on behalf of «Jubilee» magazine.
Tom Giering was a former student of Berea College in Kentucky who had visited Gethsemani. At the time of writing to Merton, he lived in New York.
Br. Matthias Gill was a Trappist monk of Gethsemani Abbey. He was also a contributor to the fourth edition of «Monks Pond» (incorrectly listed as Mathias Ginn).
Dom Ignace Gillet was Abbot General of the Cistercians of the Strict Observance (Trappists) from 1963-1974.
Etienne Gilson was a medieval scholar that was influential in Merton's early conversion to Catholicism while at Columbia University. Especially important to Merton was Gilson's book «The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy». Gilson was educated at the Sorbonne, taught throughout Europe and was later admitted to the Académie Française. He was instrumental in the founding of the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies in Toronto, where he was at the time of his correspondence with Merton. (Source: «The School of Charity», p. 30.)
Kenneth Seeman Giniger was head of the Layman's National Bible Committee, publisher of "The Catholic Bible in the St. Peter's Edition."
Robert Ginsberg is a Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. He included Merton's essay "War and the Crisis of Language" in a book he edited, entitled «The Critique of War: Contemporary Philosophical Explorations».
Robert Giroux was one of Merton's friends from his Columbia University days. While Giroux was with Harcourt, Brace publishers, he reviewed and rejected some of Merton's early novels. After seeing «The Seven Storey Mountain», he decided to take a chance on this book which turned out to be a surprise best seller and launched Merton's career as a writer. In 1955, he joined Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, which became Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1964. He later took the role as a trustee for Merton's literary estate.
Alberto Girri was a poet, prose writer, and literary translator from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Like Jorge Luis Borges, he used metaphysics and mysticism in his writings, but uses these as a tool of contemporary criticism. He published many volumes of poetry and was a regular contributor to Victoria Ocampo's magazine, «Sur».
At the time of writing, Rochelle Girson was Book Review Editor for the «Saturday Review». She writes from New York.
Martha Gisi writes from Schaffhauserrheinweg, Switzerland.
At the time of writing to Merton, David Glanz was an Editor of the Washington University student publication, «Freelance».
Tommy Glover was a former monk of Gethsemani Abbey, known as Br. Joshua, and one of the few African Americans at the monastery.
Wilbur Glover writes as Director of Shaker Community, Inc. in Hancock, Massachusetts, informing Merton of the death of Edward Deming Andrews.
Banks O. Godfrey, Jr. writes from Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
A. Goettman writes from Saint-Avold in France.
Don Gold writes as Assistant to the Editor of «Holiday» magazine.
Fausto Gomes Romáo writes to Merton from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
José Gómez-Sicre was of the Visual Arts Section of the Organization of American States.
Fr. Thomas Aquinas Gondal writes from the Trappist Abbey of Tre Fontane in Rome.
Denys Gorce writes from Grenade-sur-Adour, France.
Fr. Jim Gorman was a Sulpician priest at St. Thomas Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.
Fr. Norbert Gorrissen was a Trappist monk of the monastery of Orval in southern Belgium. He inquires about contemporary problems in monasticism. (Source: «The School of Charity», p. 229.)