1.Robert Penn Warren, All the King’s Men (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1946).
2.Edmund White, Genet: A Biography (New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010).
3.Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky (London: John Lehmann, Ltd., 1949).
4.Jean-Paul Sartre, Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr, trans. Bernard Frechtman (New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1963).
5.“Brother, we must die.”
6.Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain (Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1948).
7.Merton, Seven Storey Mountain.
8.Thomas Merton, Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk & Writer (HarperSanFrancisco, 1996).
9.Merton, Entering the Silence.