Jane Brox

Nonfiction Author

Jane Brox is an awardwinning American author who specialises in nonfiction works. Her most recent book is Silence: A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives (2019). She lives in Maine.

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Written by Jane Brox

A man in a blue jacket and black hat standing in front of a small white building with a wooden roof in a rural area.

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Consciousness and altered states

Disturbing the silence

The writer and Trappist monk Thomas Merton embodied a paradox, chasing both the purity of silence and the need to break it

Jane Brox