Question: What profession do Thomas Merton and Michael Moorcock have in common?
Context: 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. 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. 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. 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. Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939) is an English writer, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published literary novels.  He is best known for his novels about the character Elric of Melniboné, a seminal influence on the field of fantasy in the 1960s and 1970s. 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." 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. Michael Moorcock's Multiverse is an American twelve-issue comic book limited series published in 1997 as a part of the short-lived DC Comics imprint Helix.  It was later collected as a single edition graphic novel.  Written by Michael Moorcock, each monthly issue contained a chapter from three separate storylines featuring distinct groups of characters lifted from Moorcock's sprawling Eternal Champion novels. 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. "Black Blade" is a song by American rock band Blue Öyster Cult.  The lyrics were written by Eric Bloom and British science fiction writer Michael Moorcock from the viewpoint of Elric, Moorcock's most famous character.  Elric wields a sentient, soul-sucking sword named Stormbringer.  Aside from a set of cryptic, blood-red runes on the blade, the sword is black, hence the name "Black Blade".  The music was jointly composed by Eric Bloom, lead singer of Blue Öyster Cult, and bass-player John Trivers.  The song was featured in the Blue Öyster Cult album "Cultösaurus Erectus."  When Bloom was asked how he got in touch with Moorcock for the song he claims, "I went out of my way to send him a Fan Boy letter.  He was living in England, and he came over to America, to meet with his publisher.  He said, “Let's get together.”  We got together, and bonded, and he started sending me lyrics.  That is how "Black Blade," "Veteran of Psychic Wars" and "Great Sun Jester" happened.
Answer: writer