| File# | Title | First Line | Rev.Author | Citation | Year |
| 01 | | Thomas Merton continues to exert great influence on American spirituality nearly | Bailey, Raymond H. |
Review & Expositor [Louisville] 79.1 (Winter 1982): 177-179.
| 1982 |
| 02 | | Thomas Merton once said, "An author in a Trappist monastery is like a duck in a chicken coop. | Corr, Thomas J. |
College Literature 8 (1981): 203-204.
| 1981 |
| 03 | | What Merton wrote was never so fascinating as the himself. | Lane, Belden C. |
Theology Today 38.2 (July 1981): 242-246.
| 1981 |
| 04 | | At last, twelve years after his untimely death in Bangkok on Dec. 10, 1968, a full | Kelly, Frederick J., SJ |
Theological Studies 42 (March 1981): 154-157.
| 1981 |
| 05 | | Many books have been written about Merton since his death. | Hauser, Richard J. |
Review for Religious 40.6 (Nov-Dec 1981): 943-944.
| 1981 |
| 06 | | Thomas Merton (1915-1968) surprised polite and impolite society | Spoto, Donald |
Notre Dame English Journal 13 (September 1981): 61-64.
| 1981 |
| 07 | | Thomas Merton, Cistercian monk and indefatigable student of religion | Carr, Anne E. |
Journal of Religion 61 (October 1981): 441-442.
| 1981 |
| 08 | | Not simply one more book about Thomas Merton to be numbered among that | Reher, Margaret M. |
Horizons 9 (Spring 1982): 160-161.
| 1982 |
| 09 | | Most of us know Thomas Merton as the author of the youthful autobiography | Leverich, Kathleen |
Christian Science Monitor 73 (24 December 1980): 17.
| 1980 |
| 10 | | Mystics, in their devotion to the Ultimate, live boundary-line lives. | O'Connor, Patricia |
Antioch Review 40.1 (Winter 1982): 114-115.
| 1982 |
| 11 | | Mystics, in their devotion to the Ultimate, live boundary-line lives. | |
Antioch Review 40.3 (Summer 1982): 369-370.
| 1982 |
| 12 | Will the real Thomas Merton please stand up? | Catholic readers have badly needed a detailed and objective biography of Thomas Merton. | Christopher, Michael |
U.S. Catholic 46 (January 1981): 48-49.
| 1981 |
| 13 | The Clumsy Lover | As far as I can remember, it is ten years since I last reviewed a book. | Nicholl, Donald |
Month [London] 14 (August 1981): 286.
| 1981 |
| 14 | | There is a magnetism in the life and work of Thomas Merton which has made him a captivating | Padovano, Anthony T. |
New Catholic World 224 (March-April 1981): 94-95.
| 1981 |
| 15 | A kinsman to many | A decade ago, when I took the first tentative, frightened step toward an evaluation of the life and | Baker, James T. |
Commonweal 108 (10 April 1981): 214-216.
| 1981 |
| 16 | Merton: Not Yet Disappeared | Thomas Merton, a widely known figure of American Catholicism, was a man of significant talent. | Elwood, J. M. |
National Catholic Reporter 16 (19 September 1980): 18.
| 1980 |
| 17 | A Monk of Our Times | Though Thomas Merton is more than a dozen years in the grave, books by him not only remain | Forest, James H. |
Sign 60 (April 1981): 43-46, 48.
| 1981 |
| 18 | Love and tension | Admirers of Thomas Merton's early books, Elected Silence and The Seeds of Contemplation may | Goffin, Magdalen |
Tablet [London] 235 (14 March 1981): 261.
| 1981 |
| 19 | In Search of Thomas Merton | Nobody is surprised that Monica Furlong's biography of Thomas Merton has turned out to be | Bamberger, John Eudes, OCSO |
America 147 (2 October 1982): 165-169.
| 1982 |
| 20 | | In Merton: A Biography, British author Monica Furlong has succeeded in writing a frist-rate account | Twomey, Gerald S. |
America 144 (10 January 1981): 24.
| 1981 |
| 21 | | It is one of the many marks of the continuing power Merton exercises over the present to realize | Hewett, William |
Heythrop Journal [London] 25 (January 1984): 109-110.
| 1984 |
| 22 | | If one expects the irreverent, but delightfully zany, memoir, The Man in the | O'Brien, Pat |
The Furrow 32.4 (April 1981): 262-64.
| 1981 |
| 23 | | Monica Furlong, both as a journalist and as an author, is one of the most interesting writers of our time. | Power, Norman |
Birmingham Post [England] (29 January 1981): 5.
| 1981 |
| 24 | Biography Describes Life | For Thomas Merton, the would-be monastic priest whose writings stirred | Hilliard, Deb |
Arkansas Catholic 76.48 (18 December 1987): 3.
| 1987 |
| 25 | Telling Tom's Tale | Like so many in her generation, Monica Furlong first met Thomas Merton through his | Simpson, James B. |
Anglican Digest 23 (Lent 1981): 29-31.
| 1981 |
| 26 | | One of the best known charismatic figures in the Church in the years both before | Hughes, Riley |
Columbia 60 (November 1980): 30-31.
| 1980 |
| 27 | | "If you ever receive a letter," said Thomas Merton as a young Trappist, | Farrow, Anthony |
Cithara 20.2 (May 1981): 73-75.
| 1981 |
| 28 | The Long Search | Thomas Merton's life seems in many ways a replications of St. Augustine's young manhood, | Klausler, Alfred P. |
Christian Century 97 (4 March 1981): 239-240.
| 1981 |
| 29 | Monk of Destiny | There is an extraordinary fascination about Thomas Merton. | Allchin, A. M. (Arthur Macdonald) |
Church Times [London] (9 January 1981): 6.
| 1981 |
| 30 | | In considering Monica Furlong's biography of Thomas Merton, it is hard not to say | Andrew, Brother |
Christian Scholars Review 11.2 (1982): 181-183.
| 1982 |
| 31 | Merton: Beneath the religious vesture | In a rare, 1967 interview, the year before his death, Thomas Merton complained, "I maintain my | Kilcourse, George A. |
Courier-Journal [Louisville] 251 (21 September 1980): D5.
| 1980 |
| 32 | The Human Merton | Monica Furlong delivers in this biography what she promises in its introduction: | Redmont, Jane |
Cross Currents 31 .1 (Spring 1981): 99-102.
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| 33 | Best-selling hermit | Just after the war, an American publisher cautiously printed 5,000 copies of an | Lewis, Russell |
Dublin Evening Herald (9 February 1981).
| 1981 |
| 34 | | The intemperance which characterizes so much of what is written and said about Thomas Merton | Garvey, Michael |
Critic 40.2 (February 1981): 2-4.
| 1981 |
| 35 | Thomas Merton | This is not the 'official' biography of Merton. | Kinsella, Nivard |
Hallel [Ireland] 9 (Autumn 1981):302-05.
| 1981 |
| 36 | The playboy who became a monk | Thomas Merton was born a cosmopolitan American between the wars. | Beaumont, Tim |
Hampstead and Highgate Express [England] (16 January 1981): 6.
| 1981 |
| 37 | The Ascent to Thruth | The religious sense, like peace, is indivisible. | Broderick, John A. |
Irish Times (24 January 1981): 15.
| 1981 |
| 38 | Spiritual odyssey of a golden youth | In 1948, at the age of 26, greatly to the surprise of his publisher, Thomas | McEwan, Hugh G. |
Glasgow Herald (12 January 1981): 12.
| 1981 |
| 39 | Beyond the cloister | One of the worst things that ever happened to Thomas Merton was that he | Toynbee, Philip |
Observer [London] (11 January 1981).
| 1981 |
| 40 | The Way Out of Loneliness | In Seeds of Contemplation (1949), Thomas Merton had written: "The only true joy | Malits, Elena, CSC |
Our Sunday Visitor 69 (11 January 1981): 4-5.
| 1981 |
| 41 | | The potpourri of books listed above represents one small eddy in the stream of books and monographs | Cunningham, Lawrence S. |
Parabola 6 (Winter 1981): 109-113.
| 1981 |
| 42 | | AS I READ THIS BOOK, I kept thinking of people I wanted to send it to, with a note | Foley, Leonard OFM |
St. Anthony Messenger 88 (January 1981): 48-50.
| 1981 |
| 43 | The Merton Paradox | Merton fans will welcome both of these contributions to | Hinson, E. Glenn |
Sojourners 10 (October 1981): 34.
| 1981 |
| 44 | | Thomas Merton's growing reputation as a twentieth-century Augustine | Litecky, Catherine CSJ |
Sisters Today 52 (April 1981): 507-508.
| 1981 |
| 45 | A genuine search for God | Thomas Merton enthusiasts and devotees should be very pleased at the appearance of these three books. | Blonigen, Frederick J. |
Reflections… The Wanderer Review of Literature, Culture, The Arts 4.2 (Spring 1985): 7.
| 1985 |
| 46 | Silent Prophet | Just 32 years ago, The Seven Storey Mountain appeared in American book-shops. Within weeks the autobiography | Mohs, Mayo |
Time Magazine 116.18 (3 November 1980): 9.
| 1980 |
| 47 | Demolishing A Stereotype | A dozen years ago Thomas Merton was asked by a well-known national magazine to share a few thoughts | Fennell, Francis L. |
Tributaries [Mountain Park, NM] 1.5 (1981): 1-2.
| 1981 |
| 48 | Sharing a journey | Thomas Merton was one of a handful of Catholics absolutely certain to be included in any future | Harriott, John F. X. |
Sunday Times [London] (8 Jan. 1981).
| 1981 |
| 49 | Writing out of silence | ThOMAS MERTON "elected silence" and proceeded to write best-sellers describing it. | Quinn, Edward |
Yorkshire Post (21 Jan. 1981).
| 1981 |
| 50 | Merton: Times a-changing | A few people who read | Waugh, Auberon |
Sunday Telegraph (London, England), 11 January 1981.
| 1981. |
| 51 | Turbulent Trappist | The American Trappist priest | Cupitt, Don |
Times Literary Supplement [London] 4063 (Feb. 13 1981): 156.
| 1981. |
| 52 | The Ordeal of Thomas Merton | They found him lying dead on the floor of a hotel room in Bangkok, the victim of accidental | Gray, Francine de Plessix |
New York Times Book Review (19 October 1980): 3, 28, 30.
| 1980. |
| 53 | The Restless Heart of Thomas Merton | Thomas Merton (1915-1918) was one of the better-known | Doyle, John P. |
| no-year |
| 54 | | Furlong ("Puritan's Progress") has written a quietly sensational | |
Publishers Weekly (June 27, 1981).
| 1981. |
| 55 | Fascinating Views of Monastic Life | An absorbing biography and two short, strikingly original | Fuller, Edmund |
Wall Street Journal (October 6, 1980).
| 1980. |
| 56 | Thomas Merton: Stations on Life's Way | Finally we get to know something about Thomas Merton | McCarthy, Colman |
Washington Post Book World (November 23,1980): 14.
| 1980. |
| CSQ | In Search of Thomas Merton | Nobody is surprised that a biography of Thomas Merton has turned out to be absorbing reading. | Bamberger, John Eudes, OCSO |
Cistercian Studies 17.1 (1982): 99-109.
| 1982 |
| XREF1 | Merton's Affirmation and Affirmation of Merton: Writing about Silence | Thomas Merton chose to be a cloistered contemplative within one of the most austere religious orders in the United States. | Kramer, Victor A. |
Review [Charlottesville, VA] 4 (1982): 295-333 [see review author file].
| 1982 |