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  • Black Like Me

    The Definitive Griffin Estate Edition

    by John Howard Griffin, Don Rutledge, Robert Bonazzi ...
    This American classic has been corrected from the original manuscripts and indexed, featuring historic photographs and an extensive biographical afterword. ... Read more

    $14.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Available Light

    Exile in Mexico

    by John Howard Griffin ...
    Culled from previously unpublished material, this collection of writing and photography by John Howard Griffin was taken from the period during which he was writing and revising what would be his most famous book, the bestselling Black Like Me. Living in exile in Mexico at the time, along with his young family and aging parents, Griffin had been forced from his home town of Mansfield, Texas, by ... Read more

    $11.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Prison of Culture

    Beyond Black Like Me

    by John Howard Griffin ...
    The companion volume to the 50th-anniversary edition of Black Like Me, this book features John Howard Griffin's later writings on racism and spirituality. Conveying a progressive evolution in thinking, it further explores Griffin's ethical stand in the human rights struggle and nonviolent pursuit of equality—a view he shared with greats such as Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Thomas Merton. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Street of the Seven Angels

    by John Howard Griffin ...
    A social satire set in Paris, this previously unpublished novel is based in part on the U.S. Supreme Court's censorship trial regarding the author's first novel. ... Read more

    $14.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Follow the Ecstasy

    The Hermitage Years of Thomas Merton

    by John Howard Griffin ...
    In 1969, one year after Thomas Merton's tragic (and suspicious) death, John Howard Griffin was invited to write a biography of America's most famous monk, a monk who strangely had become a best-selling theologian. The result was Follow the Ecstasy: The Hermitage Years of Thomas Merton (1983). Both Merton and Griffin were converts to Catholicism, and they had become fast friends during Griffin's ... Read more

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  • Scattered Shadows

    A Memoir of Blindness and Vision

    by John Howard Griffin ...
    A remarkable memoir of resilience, spiritual awakening, and physical transformation from the celebrated author of Black Like Me.In 1945, after suffering severe injuries during World War II, John Howard Griffin faced the gradual loss of his eyesight. Plunged into total sightlessness at age twenty-seven, he refused to surrender to despair or social stereotypes. In Scattered Shadows: A Memoir of ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Devil Rides Outside

    by John Howard Griffin ...
    No less a critic than Clifton Fadiman called The Devil Rides Outside a "staggering novel." The first novel of John H. Griffin, it written during the author's decade of blindness following an injury suffered during the closing days of World War II. As Time Magazine described it, The Devil Rides Outside "has some things relatively rare in U.S. letters: energy, earnestness and unashamed religious ... Read more

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  • Nuni

    by John Howard Griffin ...
    After John Howard Griffin's escape from Nazi-occupied France, he was shipped to the South Pacific, where he was stationed as an isolated observer in the Solomon Islands. That experience led to his second novel, Nuni (1956). As in his first novel, The Devil Rides Outside, an American professor is confronted by an alien reality. In Nuni, that reality is a "primitive," almost Neolithic society. Yet, ... Read more

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