Thomas Merton's The seven storey mountain -- Dorothy Day's The long loneliness -- The psychology of conversion in G.K. Chesteron and C.S. Lewis -- The dual plot of Gandhi's An autobiography -- Malcolm X and the Black Muslim search for the ultimate -- Black Elk speaks: a century later -- The remaking of an American Jew: Paul Cowan's An orphan in history -- I Rigoberta Menchú: the plotting of liberation -- Dan Wakefield's Returning -- Retraveling the century: Nelson Mandela's Long walk to freedom.