The Courage for Truth: The Letters of Thomas Merton to Writers

The Courage for Truth is one of the five volumes of Merton's selected letters published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1985-1994, volume 4 of the series, selected and edited by Christine M. Bochen and published in 1993. From 1948, when he first wrote to Evelyn Waugh, until 1968, Merton corresponded with writers around the world, among them Jacques Maritain, Czeslaw Milosz, Boris Pasternak, James Baldwin, Walker Percy, Henry Miller and Victoria Ocampo, and with younger Latin American writers such as Ernesto Cardenal; he shared with them his concerns about war, racism and repression.