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Paul Gallico: Biography Overdue

September 2, 2018

In 2018 one might connect someone 50 years or older to author Paul Gallico by reminding the >50-year-old of The Snow Goose.

In the early 1970s this story about an artist, a girl and a way-off-course Canadian goose set on the eve of World War II was broadcast a couple Christmas shopping seasons on the Hallmark Hall of Fame. The Snow Goose was also rebroadcast outside the Hall several times.

Another Gallico story brought to us by Hallmark was A Small Miracle, a remake of Never Take No For An Answer, about an Italian boy with a sick donkey who believes that St.

Francis can heal the ailing ass. This only got one showing as did an ABC made-for-TV movie, Gallico's The Story of Silent Night, broadcast on Christmas night, 1968.

Around those years of The Snow Goose repeats and of Paul Gallico's last storytelling hurrah, The Poseidon Adventure, I became aware of authorship and that one who practiced that art was named