Peter Maurin's Reading List

An important consideration, of course, is what he read, who "influenced" him.  It is impossible to know all that he may have read over the obscure years of his life, but Dorothy mentions some of the books he had her read.  "Besides Fr. Vincent McNabb and Eric Gill, there were Jacques Maritain, Leon Bloy, Charles Peguy of France, Don Sturzo of Italy, [Romano] Guardini and Karl Adam of Germany, and [Nicholas] Berdyaev of Russia."  Then she says that "the books Peter brought us enriched us immeasurably."--William D. Miller, Dorothy Day: A Biography, pg. 234.