Ed Rice, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Ed Rice

American photographer and writer

Date of Birth: 23-Oct-1918

Date of Death: 08-Aug-2001

Profession: photographer, biographer, photojournalist, journalist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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.