question: Thomas Merton and Jane Urquhart, are in the writing industry?
answer: yes
context: Title: Robert Lax
  Passage: Robert Lax (November 30, 1915 – September 26, 2000) was an American poet, known in particular for his association with famed 20th century Trappist monk and writer Thomas Merton.  A third friend of his youth, whose work sheds light on both Lax and Merton, was Ad Reinhardt.  During the latter period of his life, Lax resided on the island of Patmos, Greece.  Considered by some to be a self-exiled hermit, he nonetheless welcomed visitors to his home on the island, but did nothing to court publicity or expand his literary career or reputation.
  Title: Dim Gray Bar Press
  Passage: Dim Gray Bar Press was an independent publisher of letterpress limited edition books printed at The Center for Book Arts in New York City.  Founded by Barry Magid in 1989, its first title was "Dialogue About A Hidden God," a translation of a work of Nicholas of Cusa by Thomas Merton.  Subsequent works, handprinted in editions of usually 100 copies or less, included work by Martine Bellen, Wendell Berry, Eavan Boland, Guy Davenport, Sharon Dolin, Mark Doty, Jonathan Greene, Rachel Hadas, Andrew Hudgins, Jim Harrison, James Laughlin, William Matthews, Gerald Stern, Robert Stone, Charles Tomlinson, Jonathan Williams and William Carlos Williams.  Magid also edited "Father Louie: Photographs of Thomas Merton by Ralph Eugene Meatyard" (Timken 1991) which included an introduction by Guy Davenport.  The press ceased publication in 2000.  Barry Magid is also a psychoanalyst and a Dharma heir to Charlotte Joko Beck in the Ordinary Mind Zen School.
  Title: Thomas Merton Award
  Passage: The Thomas Merton Award has been awarded since 1972 by the Thomas Merton Center for Peace and Social Justice in Pittsburgh, United States.  It is named after Thomas Merton and is given annually to "national and international individuals struggling for justice."
  Title: International Thomas Merton Society
  Passage: The International Thomas Merton Society, founded in 1987, is a learned society which studies the works of American Catholic writer and mystic Thomas Merton.  It sponsors conferences and co-publishes a journal, "The Merton Seasonal".  The society and the Thomas Merton Center are located at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A.
  Title: Jane Urquhart
  Passage: Jane Urquhart, Order of Canada OC (born June 21, 1949) is a Canadian novelist and poet born in Little Long Lac, Ontario.  She is the internationally acclaimed author of seven award-winning novels, three books of poetry and numerous short stories.  As a novelist, Urquhart is well known for her evocative style which blends history with the present day.  Her first novel, "The Whirlpool" (published 1986), gained her international recognition when she became the first Canadian to win France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger (Best Foreign Book Award).  Her subsequent novels were even more successful.  "Away", published in 1993, won the Trillium Award and was a national bestseller.  In 1997, her fourth novel, "The Underpainter", won the Governor General's Literary Award.
  Title: The Seven Storey Mountain
  Passage: The Seven Storey Mountain is the 1948 autobiography of Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk and a noted author of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.  Merton finished the book in 1946 at the age of 31, five years after entering Gethsemani Abbey near Bardstown, Kentucky.  The title refers to the mountain of Purgatory in Dante's "The Divine Comedy".
  Title: Thomas Merton Center (Louisville)
  Passage: The Thomas Merton Center is the home of the largest collection of the works of Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani.  It is located on the second floor of the W.L. Lyons Brown Library at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky, United States.
  Title: St. Joseph's Intermediate and Commercial School
  Passage: St. Joseph's Intermediate and Commercial School (St. Joseph's Commercial School, SJICS, or St. Joe's Sherbourne) is a former Catholic High school located in the Cabbagetown neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada part of the Metropolitan Separate School Board (now the Toronto Catholic District School Board).  The school was later renamed to Thomas Merton Academy (Thomas Merton, TMA, or Merton) in 1985 after the Anglo-American monk Thomas Merton.
  Title: List of works about Thomas Merton
  Passage: The following is a list of works about Thomas Merton, publications about Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk from Abbey of Gethsemani.  The bibliography is organized into categories.  A separate list of works by Thomas Merton is also available.
  Title: Thomas Merton
  Passage: Thomas Merton, O.C.S.O. (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968) was an American Catholic writer, theologian and mystic.  A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, he was a poet, social activist, and student of comparative religion.  In 1949, he was ordained to the priesthood and given the name Father Louis.
citations: Thomas Merton Jane Urquhart