Ed Rice

Edward J. "Ed" 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.[1] 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 become 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.

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.

Rice died August 8, 2001 in Sagaponack, New York USA

References

  1. "Merton's Correspondence with Edward Rice". The Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University. Retrieved 11 Oct 2015.

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