![]() ![]() It is an account of his journey through the Deep South, disguised as a Black man. The Texas-born journalist and author John Howard Griffin, is known almost exclusively for his 1961 book, Black Like Me. For the recently published Thomas Merton’s Betrayers: The Case against Abbot James Fox and Author John Howard Griffin, we have delved more deeply into Griffin’s background. The other three were Merton’s abbot at the Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey, Flavian Burns, Merton’s secretary there, Brother Patrick Hart, and Merton’s authorized biographer, Michael Mott. In our 2018 book, The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton: An Investigation, we identified John Howard Griffin as one of four key people responsible for cementing in the public mind that the great Catholic monk and public intellectual, Thomas Merton, had died from accidental electrocution. ![]()
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