Hugh Turley
Hugh Turley as a volunteer columnist for the Hyattsville Life and Times, is winner of the National Newspaper Association award for best serious column, small-circulation, non-daily division
Hugh is co-author, together with David Martin, of The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton: An Investigation, and Thomas Merton’s Betrayers: The Case Against Abbot James Fox and author John Howard Griffin.
Hugh can be reached at: turley2u@mac.com.
Thomas Merton was the most influential Catholic writer of the 20th century.
He was almost as well-known in the United States as the author Ernest Hemingway or the popular Bishop Fulton J. Sheen.
He had been raised in France where his American mother and New Zealander father had met in a...
