His autobiographical "The Seven Storey Mountain" sold over a million copies.

Seven Storey Mountain is an American band from Phoenix, Arizona.

The original lineup of Seven Storey Mountain disbanded in 1998.

The Seven Storey Mountain, Merton's autobiography, was written during two-hour intervals in the monastery scriptorium as a personal project.

By this time Merton was a huge success outside the monastery, The Seven Storey Mountain having sold over 150,000 copies.

Merton mentions her in his autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain:

The Seven Storey Mountain was published in 1948 and was met with surprising levels of public attention.

The following week, The Seven Storey Mountain appeared on the bestsellers list, where it remained for almost a year.

The Seven Storey Mountain is a book one reads with a pencil so as to make it one's own.

The Seven Storey Mountain has been extensively praised in lists of the best books of the 20th century.