Does Merton Still Matter? Some Thoughts on the 75th Anniversary of “The Seven Storey Mountain”

On October 11, 1948, Harcourt Brace Publishers released a book called The Seven Storey Mountain. So this coming Wednesday marks that book’s seventy-fifth anniversary.

Chances are, most people who read this blog are quite familiar with Merton and probably with The Seven Storey Mountain as well. But in case you aren’t: this book is the memoir of a young man, the child of two artists who lived free-spirited lives traveling the world, although not without tragedy: both Merton’s parents died before h...