1. Paul William Gallico was an American novelist and short story and sports writer.
15 Facts About Paul Gallico
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Paul Gallico is perhaps best remembered for The Snow Goose, his most critically successful book, for the novel The Poseidon Adventure, primarily through the 1972 film adaptation, and for four novels about the beloved character of Mrs Harris.
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Paul Gallico's father was the Italian concert pianist, composer and music teacher Paolo Gallico, and his mother, Hortense Erlich, came from Austria; they had emigrated to New York in 1895.
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Paul Gallico's career was launched by an interview with boxer Jack Dempsey in which he asked Dempsey to spar with him.
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Paul Gallico described how it felt to be knocked out by the heavyweight champion.
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Paul Gallico followed up with accounts of catching Dizzy Dean's fastball and golfing with Bobby Jones.
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Paul Gallico became one of the highest-paid sportswriters in America.
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In 1939, Paul Gallico published The Adventures of Hiram Holliday, known for its later television adaptation with Wally Cox.
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In 1954, Paul Gallico published the novella The Love of Seven Dolls, based on "The Man Who Hated People".
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Paul Gallico's novel Mrs 'Arris Goes to Paris was a bestseller, and became the first of four books about the lovable charwoman Mrs 'Arris.
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The character was said by The New York Times to be "perhaps Mr Paul Gallico's most beloved creation".
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On resigning from the Daily News to become a full-time fiction writer, Paul Gallico moved from New York to the town of Salcombe, England.
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Paul Gallico spent the last part of his life in Antibes, France, and was buried there after his death from a heart attack in 1976, aged 78, which is variously reported to have happened in Antibes or Monaco.
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In 1955, Paul Gallico took an automobile tour of the United States, traveling some 10,000 miles, sponsored by Reader's Digest.
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In 2005, a televised disaster film titled The Poseidon Adventure, which was a remake of the movie inspired by Paul Gallico's novel, was aired; the Captain, played by Peter Weller, is named after Paul Gallico.