William E. Barrett
Description
William Edmund Barrett was born in New York City. He published his first poem at age 15. In 1916, he moved with his family to Denver, Colorado. Barrett attended Manhattan College. In 1923, he became the Rocky Mountain advertising manager for Westinghouse. In 1925 he married Christine M. Rollman, with whom he had two children. In 1929 he left Westinghouse to become a writer. Starting in 1941, he worked as an aeronautics consultant with the Denver Public Library. He was a member of PEN, the Authors League of America, the National Press Club of Washington, D.C., and the Colorado Authors League.
Books
Aviation as a business
Six scripts from Speaking of wings, presented by the Denver Public Library and the Rocky Mountain Radio Council, broadcaast by radio stations KLZ, Denver, Colorado, KDFN, Casper, Wyoming [and] KFXJ, Grand Junction, Colorado.
The left hand of God
A woman in the house
The love story of a monk and a teacher of retarded children who meet in present-day Munich.
The lilies of the field
Homer Smith is hired by East German nuns to first help build a chapel. A school then other buildings are constructed. Smith, or “Schmidt” as he is called by the nuns, is an angel sent by God. Mother Maria conducts tours of the buildings. There is a painting of a saint who has a remarkable resemblance to "Homer Schmidt" on the wall of the chapel. Mother Maria remarks that Schmidt is “a man of great faith, of great devotion."