Ed Rice

Author

1918 – 2001

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Who was Ed Rice?

Edward "Ed" Rice was an American author, publisher, photojournalist and painter, 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 of Jubilee magazine.

Rice attended Columbia University, where he become close friends with Merton, Robert Lax, and Robert Giroux. Rice was editor of the Jester humor magazine in his senior year; he graduated in 1940.

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—a subject Merton was also interested in.

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Born
Oct 23, 1918
Also known as
  • Edward Rice
  • Edward R. Rice
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Died
Aug 8, 2001

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on July 23, 2013

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