Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-459) and index.
Short title page; title page TOM MERTON A PERSONAL BIOGRAPHY by Joan C. McDonald; copyright page; Illustrations; Table of Contents; Dedication; To the Reader; Introduction; Book One; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; BOOK TWO; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; Chapter 16; Chapter 17; Chapter 18; Chapter 19; Chapter 20; Chapter 21; Chapter 22; Chapter 23; Chapter 24; Chapter 25; BOOK THREE; Chapter 26; Chapter 27; Chapter 28; Chapter 29; Chapter 30; BOOK FOUR; Chapter 31; BOOK FIVE
Chapter 32Chapter 33; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index
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Thomas Merton did not choose to keep his most personal writing secret. He provided for his diaries to be released 25 years after his death. This biography combines the details of those diaries with the more widely known and published circumstances of his life. This is the biography that tells, for the first time, of Thomas Merton as he wanted us to know him. Here we meet Merton, first as Tom, then as Thomas Merton, the writer both before and after The Seven Storey Mountain. We see the all too human fellow traveler we have come to know as he climbs the final mountain of his life. Within these p.