Ed Ricketts
American marine biologist
Died when: 50 years 363 days (611 months)Star Sign: Taurus
Edward Flanders Robb Ricketts (May 14, 1897 – May 11, 1948) was an American marine biologist, ecologist, and philosopher.He is best known for Between Pacific Tides (1939), a pioneering study of intertidal ecology.
He is also known as a mentor who influenced the writer John Steinbeck, which resulted in a collaboration and coauthorship of the book, Sea of Cortez (1941).
Eleven years later, and just 3 years after the death of Ed Ricketts, John Steinbeck reprinted the narrative portion of their coauthored book with a new publisher, but removed Ed as coauthor, while adding a biography of Ed Ricketts, and Steinbeck made a new title for the book as The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1946).
Steinbeck also added a eulogy for Ricketts, though it was met with public backlash.
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