Ed Rice
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.
Ed Rice
- Born
- 1918 · New York City.
- Died
- 2001 · New York City.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- photographer · photojournalist · biographer · journalist · writer
- Education
- Columbia University
- Languages
- English
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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.
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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.
Rice attended Columbia University, where he became close friends with Merton, Robert Lax, and Robert Giroux (who later co-founded Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Rice was editor of the Jester humor magazine in his senior year; he graduated in 1940. He stood godfather for both Merton and Lax when each converted to Catholicism; Merton in 1938, and Lax five years later. Rice chronicled his friendship with Merton in the 1970 book The Man in the Sycamore Tree: The Good Times and Hard Life of Thomas Merton. Also in 1970, he published John Frum He Come, a book documenting the South Pacific cargo cults. Rice died August 8, 2001, in Sagaponack, New York USA.
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1918
Ed Rice born at New York City.
2001
Ed Rice died at New York City.
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