Edwin Gile Rich

Background

Rich, Edwin Gile was born on September 30, 1879 in Farmington, Maine, United States. Son of Joseph Waldo Winal and Adella Catharine (Parsons) Rich.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University, 1902.

Career

Assistant editor of School Journal, 1902-1904, editor, 1914. In textbook business with The Macmillan Company, 1905-1908, District of Columbia Heath & Company, 1908-1911, Eaton & Company, 1912-1913. Editor Le Livre Contemporain, 1918-1925.

General manager Small, Maynard & Company, 1919-1925, Dial Prees, 1926, Andrew Melrose, Limited., London, 1927, Curtis Brown, Limited., from 1927.

Author: Why-So Stories, 1918. Translator: Lafond’s Covered with Mud and Glory, 1918.

Camile Saint-Saëns—Musical Memories, 1919. Pierre Pons, 1927; The Bullfighters, 1927.

Editor: The Adventures of Don Quixote, 1921, Arabian Nights, 1919-1921.

Grimm’s Fairy Tales, 1921. Gulliver’s Travels, 1922. Fontaine’s Fables, 1922.

Perrault’s Tales, 1923.

Achievements

• Edwin Gile Rich has been listed as a notable editor, author by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Clubs: Harvard, Explorers, The Players (New York).

Connections

Married Rosalie V. Olding, March 30, 1930.

Father:

Joseph Waldo Winal Rich

Mother:

Adella Catharine (Parsons) Rich

Spouse:

Rosalie V. Olding