Famed Trappist monk Thomas Merton corresponded with an extraordinary range of writers, among them Evelyn Waugh, Henry Miller, Jacques Maritain, Walker Percy and William Carlos Williams.
The Trappist monk and spiritual writer Fr. Thomas Merton was inspired by Ionesco's play and wrote an essay in 1965 titled "Rain and the Rhinoceros." Merton recognized the authenticity of Ionesco's ...