Rice, Edward

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Rice, Edward
Date of birth
1918-10-23
Date of death
2001-08-18
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 57740134
Wikidata: Q3048657
Library of congress: n 78058211
Sources of Information
  • His Marx, Engels ... c1977:t.p. (Edward Rice)
  • Ltr. from author, recd. 7/3/78(Edward Rice, not Edward E. Rice)
  • Ltr. from pub., recd. 5/29/79(Edward Rice, b. 1918; not same as Edward E. Rice, also b. 1918)
  • New York times, Aug. 25, 2001:obituaries (Edward Rice; biographer of Sir Richard Francis Burton; b. in Brooklyn; d. Aug. 18, 2001 in Southampton, N.Y. at age 82; founded the magazine Jubilee; wrote a score of books about topics like the Ganges River, ancient Babylon and Margaret Mead; author of The man in the sycamore tree (about Thomas Merton))
  • The Author's Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, c1990.

Wikipedia description:

Edward J. Rice (October 23, 1918 – August 8, 2001) was an American author, publisher, photojournalist and painter, born in Brooklyn, New York to Edward J. Rice, Sr. and Elsie (Becker) Rice. He was best known as a close friend and biographer of Thomas Merton. Rice wrote more than 20 books, including Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, a best-selling 1990 biography of the famous 19th-century explorer, and was the founder (1953) of Jubilee magazine.

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