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| | The Papers of John Howard Griffin on Display at RBML |
 | | Griffin, born in 1920 in Dallas, Texas, became famous as a novelist, journalist, humanitarian, and social critic, but he started out as a medical student and musicologist. |
 | | Griffin’s diary, kept from 1950 until his death in 1980, records his conversion to Catholicism, his years as a teacher, his blindness, the beginning of his family life, the discovery of his vocation as a writer, the publication of his novels, his work as a major portrait photographer, and his work for social justice. |
 | | A close friend of the philosopher Jacques Maritain and the religious writer Thomas Merton, Griffin was appointed official biographer of Thomas Merton, a task he was unable to finish due to failing health. |
| www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/news/exhibitions/2004/2004-04-08.griffin.html (601 words) |
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