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Informationen zum Autor Roger Coleman has spent much of his life collecting the stories of American author Eustace Cockrell. Cockrell was a significant contributor to both "pulp" and "slick" magazines in the 1930s and '40s before moving to Hollywood and becoming a pioneer writer of westerns and other early television shows.Coleman is married to Eustace Cockrell's daughter, Elizabeth. "Marrying into this family, I was immediately surrounded by the vast Cockrell history and the respect with which Eustace was held, not only as a writer, but as a person. To his family and friends, he was a man of integrity who reflected the qualities of honesty, fair play and hopefulness - the same qualities found in his many memorable characters."In addition to editing Refugee Smith and Other Stories of the Ring, Coleman previously edited a two-volume set of Cockrell's short stories, Masterpieces of Eustace Cockrell. Roger and Elizabeth Cockrell, both retired ministers, live in Edenton, NC. Klappentext In the tradition of The Little Prince, The Pope and the Snowman is a book that can be read on several levels. For adults, it is a story tracing the pope's loss of faith and his search to recover a sense of compassion and purpose. For children, it is a story in which the pope is given the opportunity to become a child again, rediscovering joy and hope in the faces of the children he meets. In the end, with the help of the the snowman and the children of Rome, the pope makes a personal commitment with far reaching consequences.The Pope and the Snowman includes 22 illustrations by Richard Becker, a free-lance illustrator and former designer with Hallmark Cards.
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Roger Coleman has spent much of his life collecting and editing the works of Hollywood writer, Eustace Cockrell. This effort has resulted in the publication of five volumes of Cockrell's pre-television short stories that include The Masterpieces of Eustace Cockell, Vol. I and II, Refugee Smith and Other Stories of the Ring, Game as They Make 'Em and Lost Stories of Eustace Cockrell, all published by Mission Point Press. Hollywood Stories, also edited by Coleman, features Cockrell's television tales that further establish the author as a master storyteller and an important transitional figure during television's Golden Age. Coleman, also a writer, is married to Eustace Cockrell's daughter, Elizabeth.
