Begun five years after he entered the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, The Sign of Jonas is an extraordinary view of Merton's life in a Trappist monastery, and it serves also as a spiritual log recording the deep meaning and increasing sureness he felt in his vocation: the growth of a mind that finds in its contracted physical world new intellectual and spiritual dimensions.
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Thomas Merton (1915–1968) was an Anglo-American Catholic writer and mystic. He was a Trappist monk, poet, social activist, and student of comparative religion. He wrote more than seventy books, including his autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain.