Word: merton 
              
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 Dates: during 1950-1959 
         
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Devout or not, thousands of U.S. readers have plowed through the books of Trappist Thomas Merton (The Seven Storey Mountain, The Waters of Siloe) with wondering attention. What makes a man give up the world? What is his life like when he does? Monica Baldwin's I Leap Over the Wall is Merton in reverse: the story of a British nun who went back to the world...