Moffitt, John (Personal Name)

His This narrow world, 1958: t.p. (John Moffitt)

America (New York, N,Y. 1909), Apr. 10, 1993, viewed online, May 6, 2011: p. 17, etc. (John Moffitt : poet from Gorakhpur to America; John J. Moffitt, Jr., b. 1908 in Harrisburg, Pa., d. July 10, 1987; educated at Princeton Univ. and Curtis Inst. of Music; probationer, novice and monk at Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, New York City, 1932 to 1963, then converted to Roman Catholicism; poetry editor of America magazine; works incl. This narrow world (1958), The living seed (1962), Adam's choice (1967), A charter for monasticism (editor, 1970), Journey to Gorakhpur (1972), Escape of the leopard (1974), Signal message (1982) and The road to now (1982))