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Edward R. Ward

Born:
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: The Author lives in Mundelein, Illinois.

Biography: Edward R. Ward is an independent researcher who is a Catholic priest.

Awards:

Primary Literary Genre(s): Poetry

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers; Children; Young adult readers

Edward R. Ward on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=edward+r.+ward

Selected Titles

  A gentlemen's agreement :
ISBN: 9780974998961 OCLC: 708658961

Graphix Products, Inc., West Chicago, Ill. : ©2011.

Ward takes a look at just what a gentlemen's agreement is and how this unwritten law was used to keep African Americans out of major league baseball for years.
  Life in the valley of death :
ISBN: 9780974998916 OCLC: 156848462

Graphix Products, West Chicago, Ill. : ©2007.

Where memory gathers :
ISBN: 0945213336 OCLC: 39013644

Rudi Pub., San Francisco : [1998]

 

 

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