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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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Merton's Correspondence with Edward Rice )〕 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
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