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David Cray is the pseudonym of a well-known mystery writer who lives in New York.
Edward Beryl Cray (July 3, 1933 – October 8, 2019) was an American journalist, biographer and educator.
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Books by Ed Cray and Complete Book Reviews

RAMBLIN' MAN: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie

Ed Cray, Author . Norton $28.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-393-04759-2

The biographer of Gen. George C. Marshall (General of the Army ) turns his prodigious skills to view another complex American hero with an equally complex story—folk singer and political activist Woody Guthrie. Cray's access to thousands...

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Chief Justice: A Biography of Earl Warren

Ed Cray, Author Simon & Schuster $30 (608p) ISBN 978-0-684-80852-9

Midway through his presidency, Dwight Eisenhower fumed that his appointment of Earl Warren ""was the biggest damn fool thing I ever did."" He was exasperated, he complained to Warren himself, about ""those Communist cases."" When Warren asked...

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General of the Army: George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman

Ed Cray, Author W. W. Norton & Company $35 (847p) ISBN 978-0-393-02775-4

This is the first one-volume portrait of Marshall (1880-1959), FDR's wartime chief of staff, who raised an army of nearly seven million, w

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In memoriam: Ed Cray, 86

Ed Cray, prolific author, expert in American folklore and beloved professor emeritus of journalism, died on Oct. 8 at the age of 86. An award-winning writer and mentor to faculty and students alike, Cray was esteemed for his nonfiction work, including biographies of folk singer Woody Guthrie and Chief Justice Earl Warren.

Cray died in Palo Alto, California, after suffering from congestive heart failure and Alzheimer’s disease.

“Ed exemplified the best of journalism — in practice as well as through education and scholarship,” said USC Annenberg Dean Willow Bay. “His was an incredible career that spanned decades and inspired generations of journalists.”

Since the early ’60s, Cray wrote more than 500 newspaper and magazine articles published in many of the country’s leading newspapers, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, in addition to 18 books examining social, legal and corporate issues.

His most recent work was Ramblin’ Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie (Norton, 2004), an unvarnished look at the Depressio

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CHIEF JUSTICE: A Biography of Earl Warren

September 17, 2017

Earl Warren was the rare politician, and later jurist, who both practiced and preached that honesty and integrity are the most important parts of a person's character. Ed Cray chronicles Warren's long and extraordinary career of a half-century in public service with objectivity and professionalism. Neither fawning nor overly critical, Cray is able to maintain a fairly personable stance on Warren, taking him to task when he felt that Warren's actions did not line up with his professed ideals. The result is a book that, while not making for riveting reading, carefully examines just who Earl Warren was, what was important to him, how his thinking was molded while growing up in California, and how he managed a relatively seamless major career change: going from Governor of California to Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

The book is roughly divided in half, page-wise, between Warren's career as a politician and Warren's career on the bench. As the title of the book hints, Cray's main interest is in the latte