Thomas Melville (writer)

Thomas Robert Melville (1930–2017) was an American priest, activist and writer. Ordained as a Maryknoll priest, he went to Guatemala in 1957, where he worked closely with local peasants. He was expelled by the government as a result of his organizing work. He left the priestly order and, in 1968, married another ex-Maryknoll sister Marjorie Bradford in Mexico. Returning to the US, the couple continued to be vocal in the Guatemalan cause, which eventually led them to be part of the Catonsville Nine group of antiwar Catholic activists.[1]

After serving out their prison sentence, both Melville and his wife obtained doctorate degrees. He wrote several books on Guatemala and Central America, some of them cowritten with his wife.[2]

Works
  • Guatemala: The Politics of Land Ownership
  • Through a Glass Darkly: The U.S. Holocaust in Central America
  • Guatemala - Another Vietnam? (with Marjorie Melville) (published in the Pelican Latin American Library)
  • Whose Heaven, Whose Earth? (with Marjorie Melville)

References
  1. "The Catonsville Nine File : Thomas Melville". c9.digitalmaryland.org. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
  2. Barnes, Bart. "Thomas Melville, antiwar protester and one of the 'Catonsville Nine,' dies at 86". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
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