William Edmund Barrett

[3] Deeply interested in aviation, he was a civilian lecturer for the United States Air Force, and worked as an aeronautics consultant with the Denver Public Library[2] from 1941 on.

In a writing career that spanned over 50 years, Barrett's works include short stories, biographies, novels, reviews and non-fiction.

In 1964, he wrote Shepherd of Mankind, a biography of Pope Paul VI.

[3] He was a member of the National Press Club of Washington, D.C., and the Colorado Authors League, serving as its president from 1943 to 1944.

Three of his novels were made into films: Barrett had been in poor health after suffering a heart attack and died in his sleep in Denver September 14, 1986 at the age of eighty-five.