Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968) was an American Trappist monk and author, born in Prades in the Pyrénées-Orientales département of France. Merton wrote more than 50 books, 2000 poems, and a countless number of essays, reviews, and lectures that have been recorded and published.

Selected Bibliography

• A Man in the Divided Sea, 1946
• The Seven Storey Mountain, 1948 (ISBN 0156010860)
• Waters of Siloe, 1949 (ISBN 0156949547)
• Seeds of Contemplation, 1949 (ISBN 0313207569)
• The Ascent to Truth, 1951 (ISBN 0860120244)
• Bread in the Wilderness, 1953
• The Last of the Fathers, 1954
• The Living Bread, 1956
• The Silent Life, 1957
• Thoughts in Solitude, 1958
• The Secular Journal of Thomas Merton, 1959
• Disputed Questions, 1960
• The Behavior of Titans, 1961
• The New Man, 1961 (ISBN 0374514445)
• New Seeds of Contemplation, 1962 (ISBN 081120099X)
• Emblems of a Season of Fury, 1963
• Life and Holiness, 1963
• Seeds of Destruction, 1965
• Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, 1966 (ISBN 0385010184)
• Raids on the Unspeakable, 1966
• Mystics and Zen Masters, 1967
• Cables to the Ace, 1968
• Faith and Violence, 1968
• My Argument with the Gestapo, 1969
• The Climate of Monastic Prayer, 1969
• Contemplation in a World of Action, 1971
• The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton, 1973
• No Man is an Island, 1978
• Alaskan Journal of Thomas Merton, 1988
• The Intimate Merton: His Life from His Journals, 1999
• Peace in the Post-Christian Era, 2004