Edmund Ward (other)
Edmund Ward may refer to: *Edmund Franklin Ward (1892–1990), American illustrator * Edmund Ward (architect) (1912–1998), British architect, co-founder of GMW Architects *Edmund Ward (screenwriter) (1928–1993), British novelist and screenwriter * Ed Ward (writer) (1948–2021), American writer and radio commentator *Edmund Ward Ltd, British publishers See also *Ed Ward (other) Ed Ward may refer to: *Ed Ward (ice hockey) (born 1969), Canadian retired National Hockey League player * Ed Ward (writer) (1948–2021), American writer and radio commentator See also * Edward Ward (other) * Edmund Ward (other) ...

Edmund Franklin Ward
Edmund Franklin Ward (January 3, 1892 – December 14, 1990) was an American illustrator who illustrated for the '' Saturday Evening Post'' and did his first illustrations for the magazine before turning age 20. He had a successful career as an illustrator of works that ranged in style and subject matter from dark tonalist in oils to humorous in wash and watercolor. For many years he illustrated the Alexander Botts and Assistant District Attorney Doowinkle stories for the ''Saturday Evening Post''. Ward studied at the Art Students League in the same class with Norman Rockwell. The two students became friends, and shared a studio in the attic of a Manhattan brownstone. Among his teachers were Edward Dufner, George Bridgman and Thomas Fogarty. He later moved to the Manhattan suburb of New Rochelle, a well known artist colony and home to many of the top commercial illustrators of the day including friend Norman Rockwell. At the time more than fifty percent of the illustrations in ...
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Edmund Ward (architect)
Edmund Ward may refer to: *Edmund Franklin Ward (1892–1990), American illustrator * Edmund Ward (architect) (1912–1998), British architect, co-founder of GMW Architects *Edmund Ward (screenwriter) (1928–1993), British novelist and screenwriter * Ed Ward (writer) (1948–2021), American writer and radio commentator *Edmund Ward Ltd, British publishers See also *Ed Ward (other) Ed Ward may refer to: *Ed Ward (ice hockey) (born 1969), Canadian retired National Hockey League player * Ed Ward (writer) (1948–2021), American writer and radio commentator See also * Edward Ward (other) * Edmund Ward (other) ...

GMW Architects
GMW Architects was an architectural practice based in the United Kingdom. In August 2015, the firm was taken over by another business, Scott Brownrigg, "as part of plans to move into the airport sector." History The practice was established in 1947 by Frank Gollins (1910–1999), James Melvin (1912–2012) and Edmund Ward (1912–1998), and operated as Gollins Melvin Ward. In the 1950s it designed Castrol House, a tower on Marylebone Road in London, notable as one of the first uses of curtain walling on a building in the United Kingdom, and the central campus for the University of Sheffield. In the 1960s it went on to design two buildings at Undershaft in the City of London: the 28-storey Commercial Union Tower, the first building in the city to exceed the height of St Paul's Cathedral, and the now demolished headquarters of P&O. These buildings both featured an innovative structure by which the office floors are hung by steel rods from cantilevers extending out from the conc ...
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Edmund Ward (screenwriter)
Edmund Ward (23 February 1928 – 12 July 1993) was a British novelist and screenwriter. Before he was 20 he had read every book in the library in his determination to “master all aspects of the written word” To further this aim he graduated from the London School of Printing and Graphic Arts with diplomas in Print Production and Typography as well as with a diploma in Scandinavian Language and Literature from a Swedish Hogskola. His first novel – Summer in Retreat – won the Author's Club Award in 1957 He also wrote ''The Gravy Train'' (1958) and ''The Private Tightrope'' (1960). He later moved into TV, writing for: ''A Prayer for the Dying'', ''Amsterdam Affair'', ''Bergerac'', ''The Challenges'', ''Front Page Story'', '' Gentlemen and Players'', ''Goodbye Gemini'', ''Grady'', '' The Hanged Man'', ''The Justice'', '' Kings and Desperate Men'', ''Man in a Suitcase'', ''The Main Chance'', ''Murder'', ''The Plane Makers ''The Plane Makers'' is a British tel ...
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Ed Ward (writer)
Edmund Ward (November 2, 1948 – May 3, 2021) was an American writer and radio commentator, the "rock-and-roll historian" for NPR's program ''Fresh Air'' from 1987 to 2017 and one of the original founders of Austin's South by Southwest music festival. Ward grew up in Eastchester, New York. He attended Antioch College and began his music-writing career in 1965. He was on the staff of ''Crawdaddy!'' (1967), ''Rolling Stone'' (1970), and ''Creem'' (1971–1977) magazines and of the ''Austin American-Statesman'' and ''The Austin Chronicle'' (where he was honored as part of their annual "Restaurant Poll", lending his name to their "Ed Ward Memorial Sandwich" award). Ward wrote several books on the history of rock-and-roll and has contributed content, with Rashod Ollison, for the PBS website for the documentary series '' Get Up, Stand Up: The Story of Pop and Protest''.
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Edmund Ward Ltd
William Heinemann Ltd., with the imprint Heinemann, was a London publisher founded in 1890 by William Heinemann. Their first published book, 1890's ''The Bondman'', was a huge success in the United Kingdom and launched the company. He was joined in 1893 by Sydney Pawling. Heinemann died in 1920 and Pawling sold the company to Doubleday, having worked with them in the past to publish their works in the United States. Pawling died in 1922 and new management took over. Doubleday sold his interest in 1933. Through the 1920s, the company was well known for publishing works by famous authors that had previously been published as serials. Among these were works by H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, W. Somerset Maugham, George Moore (novelist), George Moore, Max Beerbohm, and Henry James, among others. This attracted new authors to publish their first editions with the company, including Graham Greene, Edward Upward, J.B. Priestley and Vita Sackville-West. Throughout, the company was also k ...
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