page_title: William Edmund Barrett
section_title: Bibliography
hierarchical_section_title: William Edmund Barrett / Bibliography
caption_attribution_description: English: All Detective, December 1934
context_page_description: William Edmund Barrett was an American author.
  Born in New York City, he graduated from Manhattan College in 1922. He married Christine M. Rollman on February 15, 1925. He worked as an aeronautics consultant with the Denver Public Library from 1941 on. He received a citation from Regis College in 1956. He was a member of PEN and the Authors League of America. Barrett was a Roman Catholic.
  He was a member of the National Press Club of Washington, D.C. and the Colorado Authors League, serving as its president from 1943–1944.
  Three of his novels were made into films:
  The Left Hand of God, starring Humphrey Bogart
  Lilies of the Field based on his novel The Lilies of the Field, featuring Sidney Poitier
  Pieces of Dreams, based on The Wine and the Music.
context_section_description: Woman on Horseback (1938)
  Flight from Youth (1939)
  Aviation as a Business (1945)
  The Evil Heart (1946)
  The Number of My Days (1946)
  To the Last Man (1948)
  The Left Hand of God (1951)
  Shadows of the Images (1953)
  The Sudden Strangers (1956)
  The Empty Shrine (1958)
  The First War Planes(1960)
  The Edge of Things (1960)
  The Lilies of the Field (1962)
  The Fools of Time (1963)
  The Shepherd of Mankind (1964)
  The Glory Tent (1967)
  The Red Lacquered Gate (1967)
  The Wine and the Music (also under the title Pieces of Dreams) (1968)
  A Woman in the House (1971)
  The Shape of Illusion (1972)
  Lady of the Lotus (1975)
caption: Barrett wrote many mystery stories for pulp magazines like All Detective
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