and the present

with watercolor illustrations by the author

a man from the entirely wrong family

Most people have full time jobs

Make Peace Before the Sun Goes Down: The Long Encounter of Thomas Merton and his Abbot, James Fox Domestic fiction and the presentIn the 1950s and '60s, Thomas Merton, a monk of the Trappist monastery of Gethsemani in Kentucky, published a string of books that are among the most influential spiritual books of the twentieth century including the mega best seller The Seven Storey Mountain. He was something of a rock star for a cloistered monk, and from his monastic cell he enjoyed a wide and lively correspondence with people from the worlds of religion, literature, and politics.