This man converted to Catholicism after long correspondences with Jacques Maritain and GeraldVann, and as a result advised Francois Poulenc on the content of Dialogues of the Carmelites. His latework Follow the Ecstasy is a partial biography of Thomas Merton. Earlier, while suffering a decadeof blindness following World War II injuries, he wrote the novels Nuni and The Devil Rides Outside.In his best-known work, which was originally published in the magazine Sepia and forced him intoexile in Mex
This man converted to Catholicism after long correspondences with Jacques Maritain and GeraldVann, and as a result advised Francois Poulenc on the content of Dialogues of the Carmelites. His latework Follow the Ecstasy is a partial biography of Thomas Merton. Earlier, while suffering a decadeof blindness following World War II injuries, he wrote the novels Nuni and The Devil Rides Outside.In his best-known work, which was originally published in the magazine Sepia and forced him intoexile in Mexico, he describes revealing his true name to (*) Hattiesville newspaper editor P.D. East andbeing asked while hitchhiking if he was an "inexhaustible sex-machine." Prior to writing that work, heshaved his hands and underwent a ten-day regiment of methoxsalen ingestion and ultraviolent lighttreatment before travelling through Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. For 10 points, name this activistwho dyed his skin and travelled the South as a black man in order to write Black Like Me.
This man converted to Catholicism after long correspondences with Jacques Maritain and GeraldVann, and as a result advised Francois Poulenc on the content of Dialogues of the Carmelites.
John Howard Griffin