Question: Which writer was ordained to priesthood, W. Somerset Maugham or Thomas Merton?

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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." The Somerset Maugham Award is a British literary prize given each May by the Society of Authors.  It is awarded to the best writer or writers of a book published in the past year who is under the age of 35.  The prize was instituted in 1947 by William Somerset Maugham and thus bears his name.  The award is to be spent on foreign travel.  The total fund for each year is £12,000. The Razor's Edge is the first film version of W. Somerset Maugham's 1944 novel of the same name.  It was released in 1946 and stars Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb, Herbert Marshall, with a supporting cast including Lucile Watson, Frank Latimore and Elsa Lanchester.  Marshall plays Somerset Maugham.  The film was directed by Edmund Goulding. 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. Robert Lorin Calder, a Canadian writer and professor, won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction in 1989 for his "Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham", a biography based on extensive archival work and interviews with surviving associates of Maugham, in particular Alan Searle.  Unlike Ted Morgan, who had obtained permission from Maugham's executors to publish from Maugham's letters in his biography (1980), Calder was refused permission to do so by the Royal Literary Fund and had to rely on paraphrase in referencing Maugham's unpublished correspondence. 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. 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. William Somerset Maugham CH ( ; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965), better known as W. Somerset Maugham, was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer.  He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest-paid author during the 1930s. Trio (also known as W. Somerset Maugham's Trio) is a 1950 British anthology film based on three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Verger", "Mr. Know-All" and "Sanatorium".  Ken Annakin directed "The Verger" and "Mr. Know-All", while Harold French was responsible for "Sanatorium".

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William Somerset Maugham CH ( ; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965), better known as W. Somerset Maugham, was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer.  He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest-paid author during the 1930s. Thomas Merton, O.C.S.O. (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968) was an American Catholic writer, theologian and mystic.  In 1949, he was ordained to the priesthood and given the name Father Louis.