Thomas Merton (1915-1968) est un écrivain, un religieux trappiste et un activiste social américain. Il était l'un des auteurs spirituels catholiques les plus influents du XXe siècle.

Auteur de plus de soixante livres, il était un grand partisan du dialogue inter-religieux, étant connu pour ses dialogues avec le Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh et D.T. Suzuki. Sa vie fut écourtée à l'âge de 53 ans lorsqu'il fut électrocuté en sortant de son bain.

Ouvrages publiés

• Thirty Poems, 1944, New Directions [#]
• A Man in the Divided Sea, 1946, New Directions [#]
• The Seven Storey Mountain, 1948, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ISBN 0-15-601086-0, [#]
• The Tears of the Blind Lions, 1949, New Directions [#]
• Waters of Siloe, 1949, ISBN 0-15-694954-7, [#]
• Seeds of Contemplation, 1949, ISBN 0-313-20756-9, [#]
• The Ascent to Truth, 1951, ISBN 0-86012-024-4, [#]
• Bread in the Wilderness, 1953 [#]
• The Sign of Jonas, 1953 [#]
• The Last of the Fathers, 1954 [#]
• The Living Bread, 1956, Farrar, Straus & Cudahy [#]
• No Man is an Island, 1955 [#]
• The Silent Life, 1957 [#]
• Thoughts in Solitude, 1958 [#]
• The Secular Journal of Thomas Merton, 1959 [#]
• Disputed Questions, 1960 [#]
• The Behavior of Titans, 1961 [#]
• The New Man, 1961, ISBN 0-374-51444-5, [#]
• New Seeds of Contemplation, 1962, ISBN 0-8112-0099-X,
• Original Child Bomb: Points for Meditation to be Scratched on the Walls of a Cave, 1962, New Directions
• Emblems of a Season of Fury, 1963 [#]
• Life and Holiness, 1963, Herder and Herder
• Seasons of Celebration, 1965, Farrar, Straus and Giroux [#]
• Seeds of Destruction, 1965 [#]
• Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, 1966, ISBN 0-385-01018-4, [#]
• Raids on the Unspeakable, 1966 [#]
• Redeeming the Time, 1966, Burns & Oates, [#]
• Mystics and Zen Masters, 1967, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN 0-374-52001-1 [#]
• Selected Poems, 1967, New Directions [#]
• Cables to the Ace, 1968, New Directions [#]
• Faith and Violence, 1968 [#]
• Zen and the Birds of Appetite, 1968, New Directions Publishing, ISBN 0-8112-0104-X (All Libraries)
• My Argument with the Gestapo, 1969, Doubleday [#]
• The Climate of Monastic Prayer (1969). Cistercian Publications, [#], republished as Contemplative Prayer, 1996 by Image Books, with foreword by Thich Nhat Hanh, ISBN 0-385-09219-9
• Contemplative Prayer, 1969, Herder and Herder [#]
• The Geography of Lograire, 1969, New Directions Publishing [#]
• The Way of Chuang Tzu, 1969, New Directions Publishing, ISBN 0-8112-0103-1 [#]
• Contemplation in a World of Action, 1971 [#]
• The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton, 1973, New Directions Publishing, ISBN 0-8112-0570-3, [#]
• Ishi Means Man, 1976, Unicorn Press, ISBN 0-87775-100-5 [#]
• Alaskan Journal of Thomas Merton, 1988 [#]
• The Intimate Merton: His Life from His Journals, 1999 [#]
• Peace in the Post-Christian Era, 2004, Orbis Books, ISBN 1-57075-559-0 [#]
• A Book of Hours, 2007, Sorin Books, ISBN 1-933495-05-7 [: [#]