1915-1968. A young New York bon-vivant turned Trappist monk, probably the first monk to make the best-seller list (for his autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain). Wrote several volumes of poetry from Gethsemani, the Kentucky monastery where he lived most of his adult life. In later years was active in civil rights and anti-war issues, and tried to bridge the gaps between Eastern and Western contemplative disciplines; he was both cloistered monk and worldly, boat-rocking heretic.