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Thomas Merton was born in Prades, Pyrénées-Orientales, France, on January 31, 1915, to parents of Welsh origin: Owen Merton, a New Zealand painter active in Europe and the United States, and Ruth Jenkins Merton, an American Quaker and artist.
Title page from the second edition of Sandford and Merton. The History of Sandford and Merton (1783–89) was a best-selling children's book written by Thomas Day.He began it as a contribution to Richard Lovell and Honora Sneyd Edgeworth's Harry and Lucy, a collection of short stories for children that Maria Edgeworth continued some years after her stepmother died.
He married Ruth Jenkins, an American, by whom he had two sons, Tom, who became the American Trappist monk and writer Thomas Merton and John Paul Merton. [1] (Owen Merton is described in his son Thomas' famous spiritual autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain.) He worked at different times as a church organist and cinema pianist.
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The Seven Storey Mountain is the 1948 autobiography of Thomas Merton, an American Trappist monk and priest who was a noted author in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Merton finished the book in 1946 at the age of 31, five years after entering Gethsemani Abbey near Bardstown, Kentucky.
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