Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Hocks, Paula
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
- Hocks, Paula, 1916-2003
Other form(s) of name
- Paula Hocks
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1916-2003
History
Paula Hocks was later known as a photographer and book artist. At the time of correspondence with Merton, she had spent time interacting with the Trappist nuns at Redwoods Monastery and was on faculty at University of California at San Diego in La Jolla. Merton was encouraging her interest in sacred art. Before she had established herself as an artist, she had offered to do typing for Merton. She became Editor of a small poetry magazine at UCSD while teaching in the Philosophy Department. She would later move to Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico.