A CHRONOLOGY OF THOMAS MERTON'S LIFE

Sometimes I forget how important Tom Merton has been to my past life and how I arrived here. I need to get back to reading and praying in the Merton way.

"Thomas Merton (1915-1968) is arguably the most influential American Catholic
author of the twentieth century. His autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain,
has sold over one million copies and has been translated into over fifteen
languages. He wrote over sixty other books and hundreds of poems and articles on
topics ranging from monastic spirituality to civil rights, nonviolence, and the
nuclear arms race. "