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Reluctant Activist - The Spiritual Life and Art of John Howard Griffin (Paperback)
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Reluctant Activist - The Spiritual Life and Art of John Howard Griffin (Paperback)
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This authorized biography by Robert Bonazzi, executor for the
estate of John Howard Griffin (1920-1980), is based upon Griffin's
Journals from 1950-1980. Griffin was blinded in the South Seas
during WW II, but regained sight in 1957, after which he wrote the
classic Black Like Me (Houghton Mifflin, 1961), now translated into
sixteen languages. During a decade of blindness, Griffin published
two novels and many short stories. His third novel, Street of the
Seven Angels, was published posthumously by Wings Press (2003). The
first two novels, The Devil Rides Outside (a banned best seller
that was adjudicated by the Supreme Court not to be pornographic)
and Nuni are Wings Press e-books, as is a fiftieth anniversary
cloth edition of Black Like Me. Griffin's Encounters with the Other
(1997) and Follow the Ecstasy, about Thomas Merton's last years
(1983), were published posthumously by Latitudes Press; Follow the
Ecstasy: The Hermitage Years of Thomas Merton (1993) and Scattered
Shadows: A Memoir of Blindness and Vision (2004) appeared
posthumously from Orbis Books. Author Robert Bonazzi follows
Griffin year by year after 1961, when Griffin toured the globe as a
lecturer on human rights. In addition to Griffin's Journals,
Bonazzi's sources include Scattered Shadows, interviews with Studs
Terkel, Mike Wallace, and other sources, plus the witness of
Griffin's widow Elizabeth Griffin-Bonazzi. The author completes
Griffin's story with Griffin's photographic portraits of Thomas
Merton, among many others, and his musicological essays.
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