Robert Giroux

Robert Giroux

1914-04-08
94 (2008-09-05)
Jersey City, New Jersey, USA

Robert Giroux was an American book editor and publisher. His most notable collaborations include those with Trappist monk and writer Thomas Merton; and novelist, short story writer, and essayist Flannery O'Connor.

Jersey City, New Jersey, USA

Robert Giroux was an American book editor and publisher. His most notable collaborations include those with Trappist monk and writer Thomas Merton; and novelist, short story writer, and essayist Flannery O'Connor.

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Merton: A Film Biography 1984 (8)

In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social criticism. For nearly 27 years he was a monk of the austere Trappist order, where he became an eloquent spiritual writer and mystic as well as an anti-war advocate and witness to peace. Merton: A Film Biography provides the first comprehensive look at this remarkable 20th century religious philosopher who wrote, in addition to his immensely popular autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain, over 60 books on some of the most pressing social issues of our time, some of which are excerpted here. Merton offers an engaging profile of a man whose presence in the world touched millions of people and whose words and thoughts continue to have a profound impact and relevance today.
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On the Road to Desolation 1997

Andrew O'Hagan looks at a critical point in the life of Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac. In 1956 he spent spent 63 soul-searching days as a fire-watcher on Washington state's Desolation Peak. After this stint he was never the same creative force again.