Wallace Rice
Born: 1859
Died: December 15, 1939, Chicago, Illinois Connection to Illinois: Rice was a life-long resident of Chicago. Biography: Wallace Rice was Chicago author, anthologist and lecturer. He was a graduate of Harvard University and was admitted to the bar in 1884 but soon found he had little interest in the law and started his literary career not long after. He started out as a newspaper reporter and then became both a drama and book critic. He worked for most of the Chicago papers and was a prolific freelance writer at the same time. He was the author, co-author, editor or compiler of more than ninety books and pamphlets. His interests were wide - he wrote pageants for historical occasions, plays and masques, hymns, song lyrics special histories of utilities and hotels. He wrote the histories of the Chicago Stock Exchange in 1923, the People's Gas Light and Coke Company and the Palmer House. He even served as a usage counselor for the ''English Journal''. He also designed the Municipal Flag of Chicago that was adoped in 1917 and the Illinois Centennial flag.He was an ardent writer of verse and a tireless anthologist. His own poetry appeared throughout his lifetime in many anthologies including ''The Oxford Book of American Verse.'' He even edited the anthology,''Infidels and Heretics'' with Clarence Darrow in 1929. Rice was a member of the Illinois State Historical Society, the Chicago Historical Society, the Cliff Dwellers, the Society of Midland Authors, the Stage Guild, the Playwrights Theater and several other Chicago societies.
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Selected Titles
| GIRLS AND GLADNESS : ISBN: 0243404700 OCLC: 986884030 FORGOTTEN Books, [Place of publication not identified], 2017. |
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Hospital epidemiology and infection control ISBN: 0781742587 OCLC: 53370125 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia : 2004. A comprehensive reference on hospital epidemiology and infection control. In 115 chapters written by over 150 experts, the book examines every type of hospital-acquired (nosocomial) infection and addresses every issue relating to surveillance, prevention, and control of these infections in patients and in healthcare workers. This edition features two brand-new sections: a six-chapter section on bioterrorism and a five-chapter section on healthcare quality improvement. Other new chapters cover using the personal computer for healthcare epidemiology; infections associated with xenotransplantation; nosocomial bacteremia; and filamentous fungi. |
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Infidels and heretics : ISBN: 1417917342 OCLC: 56573108 [Kessinger Pub.], [Whitefish, MT] : 2004?, ©1929. |
| LINCOLN YEAR BOOK : ISBN: 1331400767 OCLC: 982795277 FORGOTTEN Books, [Place of publication not identified], 2015. |
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| PRIMAVERA. THE MASQUE OF SANTA BARBARA. ISBN: 5519467900 OCLC: 1007077731 Book ON DEMAND LTD, [Place of publication not identified], 2015. |
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| TH ATHLETE'S GARLAND : ISBN: 1333021380 OCLC: 979770869 FORGOTTEN Books, [Place of publication not identified], 2016. |
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Under the stars and other songs of the sea. ISBN: 1290081085 OCLC: 940475389 Hardpress Publishing, [Place of publication not identified] : 2012. |
| Wealth of friendship. ISBN: 115320830X OCLC: 935167510 Rarebooksclub Com, [Place of publication not identified] : 2012. |