| File# | Title | First Line | Rev.Author | Citation | Year |
| 01 | | This visual and verbal entertainment by Edward Rice portrays Thomas Merton's life | Leonhardt, Douglas J. |
Review for Religious 30.3 (May 1971): 535.
| 1971 |
| 02 | | Friendship equips one to see and say special things about the one known and loved. | Richardson, Jane Marie, SL |
Worship 46 (February 1972): 123-125.
| 1972 |
| 03 | Recalling the artist and monk who lives on | These are the first two of what will surely be a banquet of books to publicly witness | Murray, Michele |
National Catholic Reporter 7 (19 February 1971): 11.
| 1971 |
| 04 | A circus of Mertons | "When he left for Asia," said W.H. Ferry, "he was like a kid going to the circus." | Forest, James H. |
Commonweal 92 (22 January 1971): 400-402.
| 1971 |
| 05 | | Father Merton's death, met suddenly in a lamentable accident, shocked the multitudes of readers who | Peisson, Henry |
Cross and Crown 23 (September 1971): 358-359.
| 1971 |
| 06 | Thomas Merton: Trappist-Buddhist monk | This book is about "an Englsihman who becomes a Communist, then a Catholic, later a Trappist monk | Appel, Regis |
Homiletic and Pastoral Review 71 (April 1971): 77-79.
| 1971 |
| 07 | | One wonders if there was a better known American churchman of his era than Thomas Merton. | Shaw, Russell |
Sign 50 (February 1971): 52.
| 1971 |
| 08 | | The conversion of Thomas Merton to Roman Catholicism and his subsequent monastic career represent | Godfrey, Aaron W. |
Liturgical Arts 39 (August 1971): 113, 115-116. Aaron W. Godfrey
| 1971 |
| 09 | | In the final pages of his best selling autobiography, | Duffy, Sister Gregory |
Best Sellers 30 (15 January 1971): 445-46.
| 1971 |
| 10 | Merton: A Fulfilled Human Being | On the cover of this long-awaited and much-feared book is Thomas Merton's delighted, | Filiatreau, John |
Courier-Journal [Louisville] (31 January 1971): D4.
| 1971 |
| 11 | | The most predictable thing about Thomas Merton's life was that its end | Deedy, John Jr. |
Critic 29 (March-April 1971): 81-82.
| 1971 |
| 12 | | To an amazing degree, Thomas Merton seems to have been all things | McNiff, Mary S. |
Sisters Today 42 (Febraury 1971): 336-337.
| 1971 |
| 13 | Good Books in a Bad Year | The Seven Storey Mountain, the best-selling 1948 autobiography that made a young Trappist monk | Mohs, Mayo |
Time Magazine 96.23 (7 December 1970): 66.
| 1970 |
| 14 | | Edward Rice's supplement to Merton's own portrait of himself | King, D. P. |
World Literature Today 60.2 (Spring 1986): 319.
| 1986. |
| 15 | Father Thomas Merton: The Man and His Search | "Gott ist Tot." When Nietzche proclaimed the expiration | Macleish, Roderick |
Washington Post (February 27, 1971): C4.
| 1971. |
| 16 | Myth-Making of a Monk | When the astonishing energies of Thomas Merton came to a sudden | McDonnell, Thomas P. |
| no-year |
| 17 | The Man in the Sycamore Tree: An Appraisal | A new insight into the life of Bro. Thomas Merton is given by his life-long friend | Murray-Gardenchild, Muz |
The Mountain Path 10.3 (July 1973): 161-162.
| 1973. |
| CSQ | | This frankly journalistic account of Merton's life and career from beginning to end is written | Bamberger, John Eudes, OCSO |
Cistercian Studies 7.2 (1972). Bulletin of Monastic Spirituality # 296. [155-161]
| 1972. |
| SEASONAL | Zacchaeus, Make Haste | Edward Rice was one of the first biographers of his monk-friend. His book, which originally | Ryan, Gregory J. |
Merton Seasonal 10:4 (Fall 1985): 9-11 [online]. [Accessed March 7th, 2017]
http://merton.org/ITMS/Seasonal/10/10-4Ryan.pdf
| 1985 |