PagineA Trappist monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, Merton wrote the bestselling memoir The Seven Storey Mountain as well as poetry and writings on peace and contemplation.
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Thirty Poems (1944), The Seven Storey Mountain (1948).