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.
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