22 de junio, ciudadanía norteamericana. The Ascent to Truth. Casi todo su tiempo dedicado a la dirección espiritual y a la instrucción.
1952
Julio, visita a Ohio. Bread in the Wilderness.
1953
The Sign of Jonas.
1954
The Last of the Fathers.
1955
Maestro de novicios, desde entonces y durante diez años. No Man is an Island.
1956
The Living Bread; Praying the Psalms; Silence in Heaven.
1957
The Basic Principles of Monastic Spirituality; The Silent Life; The Strange Islands;The Tower of Babel. Encuentro con Ernesto Cardenal como postulante.
1958
Monastic Peace; Nativity Kerygma; Thoughts in Solitude.
1959
The Secular Journal of Thomas Merton; Selected Poems of Thomas Merton.
1960
Octubre, construcción de una ermita para Thomas Merton en Mount Olivet. Disputed Questions; Spiritual Direction and Meditation; The Wisdom of the Desert.
1961
The Behavior of the Titans; The New Man; New Seeds of Contemplation.
1962
Clement of Alexandria; Original Child Bomb; A Thomas Merton Reader. Dirige un retiro para la plantilla de The Catholic Worker.
1963
Reconocimiento académico de la Universidad de Columbia, Breakthrough to Peace;Emblems of a Season of Fury; Life and Holiness.
1964
La Universidad de Kentuky le concede un “Honorary Doctorate of Letters.” Come to the Mountain; Seeds of Destruction. Encuentro con el Dr. Suzuki en Nueva York.
1965
20 de agosto, entra formalmente en su ermita. Gandhi on Non Violence; Seasons of Celebrations; The Way of Chuang-Tzu.
1966
Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander; Hagia Sophia; Raids on the Unspeakable.
1967
Mystics and Zen Masters. Concelebración de la ordenación de Dan Walsh, profesor de Filosofía y mentor de Merton en la Universidad de Columbia.
1968
13 de enero, elección del padre Flavian Burns como nuevo abad del monasterio. Mayo, visita California y Arizona. Septiembre, visita distintos puntos del país; viaja a Asia; encuentro de benedictinos asiáticos y de abades cistercienses en Bangkok. 10 de diciembre, muere en Bangkok. Cables to the Ace; Faith and Violence; Zen and the Birds of Appetite.
1969
The Climate of Monastic Prayer; The Geography of Lograire; My Argument with the Gestapo; The True Solitude.
1970
Opening the Bible.
1971
Contemplation in a World of Action; Early Poems: 1940-1941; Thomas Merton on Peace.
1973
The Asian Journal.
1974
Cistercian Life; The Jaguar and the Moon.
1975
He is Risen.
1976
Ishi Means Man; Meditations on Liturgy.
1977
The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton; A Hidden Wholeness; The Monastic Journey.
1978
A Catch of Anti-Letters (with Robert Lax).
1979
Love and Living.
1980
The Non-Violent Alternative; Thomas Merton on St. Bernard.
1981
Day of a Stranger; Introductions East and West; The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton; The Niles-Merton Songs.
1982
Woods, Shore and Desert.
1983
Letters from Tom.
1985
The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters; Eighteen Poems.
1986
The Alaskan Journal of Thomas Merton.
1988
A Vow of Conversation: Journal 1964-1965; Encounter Thomas Merton & D.T. Suzuki; 39 cassettes on Monastic Lessons.
1989
Reflections on My Work; The Road to Joy; Nicholas of Cusa; Preview of the Asian Journey.
1990
The School of Charity: Letters.
1992
Springs of Contemplation: A Retreat at the Abbey of Gethsemani.
1993
The Courage for Truth: Letters.
1994
Witness to Freedom: Letters.
1995
Passion for Peace: The Social Essays of Thomas Merton; Run to the Mountain.
1996
Journals, vol. 1; At Home in the World (Letters with Rosemary Radford Ruether).
1997
Journals, vols. 2, 3, 4; Thomas Merton’s Four Poems in French.
Journals, vols. 5 and 6; Thomas Merton and James Laughlin: Selected Letters.
1998
The Letters of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz.
1999
Journals, vol. 7.
2000
Essential Writings.
2001
The Intimate Merton: His Life from His Journals; Dialogues with Silence: Prayers & Drawings.
2002
When Prophecy Still Had a Voice: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Robert Lax. Seeds.
2003
Survival or Prophecy? The Letters of Thomas Merton and Jean Leclercq. Seeking Paradise: The Spirit of the Shakers; The Inner Experience: Notes on Contemplation.
2004
Peace in the Post-Christian Era; A Year with Thomas Merton: Daily Meditations from his Journals.
2005
In the Dark Before Dawn: New Selected Poems of Thomas Merton; Cassian and The Fathers; I Have Seen What I Was Looking For: Selected Spiritual Writings.
2005-2006
The Cold War Letters; Pre-Benedictine Monasticism; An Invitation to the Contemplative Life.
2007
In My Own Words; Lent and Eastern Wisdom from Thomas Merton.
