Question: Connie May Fowler and Thomas Merton, share what nationality?
Context: The Seven Storey Mountain is the 1948 autobiography of Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk and a noted author of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.  Merton finished the book in 1946 at the age of 31, five years after entering Gethsemani Abbey near Bardstown, Kentucky.  The title refers to the mountain of Purgatory in Dante's "The Divine Comedy". Before Women Had Wings is a 1997 television film, based on the story by Connie May Fowler about a mother whose abusive husband commits suicide.  She then starts to violently abuse her two daughters.  It is only then that a kindly black woman becomes good friends with her youngest daughter and helps the daughter escape her tortured life.  The film stars Ellen Barkin, Oprah Winfrey, Tina Majorino, and Julia Stiles.  Barkin won an Emmy for her role. 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. 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. Connie May Fowler (born January 3, 1960 to parents of multi-cultural backgrounds) is an American novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter, and poet.  Her semi-autobiographical novel, "Before Women had Wings", received the 1996 Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Francis Buck Award (League of American Pen Women).  She adapted the novel for Oprah Winfrey and the subsequent Emmy-winning film starred Winfrey, Ellen Barkin, Julia Stiles, and Tina Majorino.  "Remembering Blue" received the Chautauqua South Literary Award.  Three of her novels were Dublin International Literary Award nominees.  Her other novels include "Sugar Cage" and "River of Hidden Dreams".  "The Problem with Murmur Lee" was Redbook’s premier book club selection.  Her memoir, "When Katie Wakes", explores her family’s generational cycle of domestic violence.  "How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly", a novel oft compared to Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" in term of its structure, was published in 2010.  Her latest book, a memoir titled "A Million Fragile bones," will be published April 20, 2017 by Twisted Road Publications.  It explores her life on an isolated barrier island and the horrific impact and aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill.  Her books have been translated into eighteen languages (http://www.conniemayfowler.com/about.html). 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. 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. 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. 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.
Answer: American