The Letters of Robert Giroux and Thomas MertonFrom the time they first met as undergraduates at Columbia College in New York City in the mid 1930s, the noted editor Robert Giroux (19142008) and the Trappist monk and writer Thomas Merton (19151968) became friends. The Letters of Robert Giroux and Thomas Merton capture their personal and professional relationship, extending from the time of the publication of Merton's 1948 best selling spiritual autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain, until a few