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William Edmund Barrett (November 16, 1900, New York – September 14, 1986, Denver) was an American writer, best known for the 1962 novella The Lilies of the Field.
Willam Edmund Barrett was born in New York City in 1900. He was Roman Catholic which is reflected strongly in his works. On February 15, 1925 he was married to Christine M. Rollman. He attended Manhattan College. In 1941 he became an aeronautics consultant for the Denver Public Library.
William Edmund Barrett has 39 books on Goodreads with 6510 ratings. William Edmund Barrett’s most popular book is The Lilies of the Field.
The Lilies of the Field is a 1962 novel by William Edmund Barrett, who based his depiction of the sisters partly upon the Benedictine nuns of the Abbey of St. Walburga, originally located in Boulder Colorado. The novel was filmed as Lilies of the Field in 1963.
Barrett was an early aviator and wrote frequently about World War I planes and pilots. His earliest writings were mostly short stories in pulp fiction aviation and detective magazines, using his own or a pen name. He worked for more than four years on his first book, a biography of Paraguayan President Francisco Lopez and his mistress Eliza Lynch.
(1900-1986) US amateur pilot and author, many of whose stories were nonfantastic recounts of World War One combat; he had published Flight from Youth ( 1939) before the war, later incorporating it into The Edge of Things (coll 1960 ), whose three stories all relate in some way to flying.
William Edmund Barrett, American author. Recipient citation Regis College, 1956, Accomplishment in Communication of Arts award Manhattan College, 1972.
