Hidden Wholeness, A: Visual World of Thomas Merton. Photographs by Thomas Merton and John Howard Griffin. Text by John Howard Griffin.

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US US-kylobm TMC-RG3-i-077a

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Hidden Wholeness, A: Visual World of Thomas Merton. Photographs by Thomas Merton and John Howard Griffin. Text by John Howard Griffin.

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  • 1970 (Creation)

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(1915-1968)

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Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was a writer and Trappist monk at Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky. His writings include such classics as The Seven Storey Mountain, New Seeds of Contemplation, and Zen and the Birds of Appetite. Merton is the author ofRead more

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(1920-1980)

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John Howard Griffin was a journalist and author of a book that Merton read and found inspirational, Black Like Me, in which Griffin took medication to darken his skin and traveled throughout the racially segregated south of the late 1950's. Griffin firstRead more

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A Hidden Wholeness; The Visual World of Thomas Merton. Photographs by Thomas Merton and John Howard Griffin. Text by John Howard Griffin.