Dan Griffin was Assistant Editor of «Ave Maria», a "national Catholic weekly... published by the Holy Cross Fathers." He writes from Notre Dame, Indiana.
James Gribble was Associate Director of the University of Kentucky Libraries at the time of correspondence with Thomas Merton.
Roberto Gri was an Italian student writing to Merton to ask his advice about how one should study.
David Grewe was a seminary student at Cardinal Glennon College in St. Louis, Missouri.
Fr. Réginald Grégoire was a Benedictine priest and writes from Rome.
Jonathan Greene was born in New York, but has spent most of his career living in Kentucky as a poet, author, publisher and free-lance designer. While corresponding with Merton, he was a designer for University of Kentucky Press in Lexington. He was the founder of Gnomon Press. He currently lives on a farm near Frankfort, Kentucky.
Marlon D. Green became the first African-American to be hired as a commercial pilot for a major airline. He was an experienced Air Force pilot, and though there was a need for pilots after World War II, minorities were not being hired for pilot positions in civilian life. He protested these discriminatory practices since the late 1950's, but was not hired until the Supreme Court ruled in his favor in 1963.
Julien Green lived in France for most of his life and was born in Paris in 1900 of American parents. Merton's «Raids on the Unspeakable» contains an essay on Green's 1961 novel «Chaque homme dans sa nuit», and Green disputes him on some of Merton's criticism.
Linda Gramatky was writing from New York on behalf of the publishers Doubleday and Company while Naomi Burton Stone was away from the office.
Dom Aelred Graham was a Benedictine monk from Ampleforth Abbey in England. From 1951-1967, he served as superior of the Portsmouth Priory in Rhode Island. All letters by Graham are addressed from Portsmouth, Rhode Island, except the 1968 letters and others as noted. (Source: Obituary of Fr. Aelred Graham from the Ampleforth Abbey Library by Fr. Patrick Barry, O.S.B., ‹http://www.monlib.org.uk/obits/barry/graham_a.htm›.)
Sr. Grace was a Sister of St. Helena writing from a convent in Versailles, Kentucky.
Sr. Grace was with the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Motherhouse in Monroe, Michigan.
Denis Goulet was the Visiting Associate Professor in Government and Education at Indiana University in Bloomington at the time of correspondence with Merton. Since 1979, he has served as O'Neill Professor in Education for Justice in the Department of Economics at Notre Dame University and is Faculty Fellow for both the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies.
Raphael (Ray) Gould visited Merton at Gethsemani in May of 1966 along with John Heidbrink and Thich Nhat Hanh. After that visit, Gould writes Merton on behalf of the International Committee of Conscience on Vietnam of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR). In 1967, he is listed as Director of Development of the FOR. He writes from the FOR headquarters in Nyack, New York.
James A. Gould was Chairman of the University of South Florida Department of Philosophy. He writes from Tampa.
Howard B. Gotlieb was Chief of Reference and Special Collections at Boston University. He became director of the collection in 1963, and in 2003, the repository was named after him.
Jean and Hildegard Goss-Mayr have long been advocates of non-violence and pillars of the peace movement. Hildegard was born in Vienna, and Jean was originally from France. They worked with Cardinal Ottaviani to craft documents of the Second Vatican Council in opposition to modern war. They shared with Merton an interest in Latin America and worked to bring non-violence change. In the 1980's, they promoted a peaceful end to the Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines. Members of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, Hildegard was named honorary president of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR). Jean and Hildegard visited Merton at Gethsemani in 1965. (Source: «The Hidden Ground of Love», pp. 324-325.)
Louise Gosho wrote to Dorothy Day and asked to pass her letter to Thomas Merton. She was from Renton, Washington.
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.)
Fr. Jim Gorman was a Sulpician priest at St. Thomas Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.
Denys Gorce writes from Grenade-sur-Adour, France.
Fr. Thomas Aquinas Gondal writes from the Trappist Abbey of Tre Fontane in Rome.
José Gómez-Sicre was of the Visual Arts Section of the Organization of American States.
Fausto Gomes Romáo writes to Merton from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Don Gold writes as Assistant to the Editor of «Holiday» magazine.
A. Goettman writes from Saint-Avold in France.
Banks O. Godfrey, Jr. writes from Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Wilbur Glover writes as Director of Shaker Community, Inc. in Hancock, Massachusetts, informing Merton of the death of Edward Deming Andrews.
Tommy Glover was a former monk of Gethsemani Abbey, known as Br. Joshua, and one of the few African Americans at the monastery.
At the time of writing to Merton, David Glanz was an Editor of the Washington University student publication, «Freelance».
Martha Gisi writes from Schaffhauserrheinweg, Switzerland.
At the time of writing, Rochelle Girson was Book Review Editor for the «Saturday Review». She writes from New York.
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».