William Rice (1931 â€" January 23, 2006) was a member of the
avant-garde art scene in the East Village in New York City for many
years.A painter, film actor, and an unaffiliated scholar, Bill Rice
was one of the central figures in the various bohemian enclaves that
gathered and overlapped in the Lower East Side of the 1960s. Among his
diverse achievements, Rice worked with noted Gertrude Stein expert
Ulla Dydo on Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises: 1923â€"1934
(2003), an essential study of the author's writing process, using her
notebooks and manuscripts.He was born in Vermont and graduated from
Middlebury College. He moved to Manhattan's East Third Street in 1953,
and died in Manhattan of lung cancer on January 23, 2006.
avant-garde art scene in the East Village in New York City for many
years.A painter, film actor, and an unaffiliated scholar, Bill Rice
was one of the central figures in the various bohemian enclaves that
gathered and overlapped in the Lower East Side of the 1960s. Among his
diverse achievements, Rice worked with noted Gertrude Stein expert
Ulla Dydo on Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises: 1923â€"1934
(2003), an essential study of the author's writing process, using her
notebooks and manuscripts.He was born in Vermont and graduated from
Middlebury College. He moved to Manhattan's East Third Street in 1953,
and died in Manhattan of lung cancer on January 23, 2006.
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