William Cole
Author · 16 books
William Rossa Cole (1919-2000) was best known as an editor and anthologist. He was editor or author (or co-editor or co-author) of about 75 books, 50 of them anthologies. Three of his books were honored by the ALA: I Went to the Animal Fair in 1958, Beastly Boys and Ghastly Girls in 1964, and The Birds and Beast Were There in 1965. He was an editor for Simon & Schuster and Viking, and a columnist for the Saturday Review. He died in summer 2000, at the age of 80.
Books
The Birds and the Beasts Were There
Animal Poems
1963
Waiting for Rusty
2014
Poem Stew
1981
Oh, What Nonsense!
1966
Black Mask Audio Magazine, Vol. 1
Classic Hard-Boiled Tales from the Original Black Mask (Hollywood Theater of the Ear)
2009
Humorous Poetry for Children
1955
Cat-hater's handbook, or, the ailurophobe's delight
1981
The Bedside Book of Insults
1827
Folk Songs of England, Ireland, Scotland & Wales
1992
A Zooful of Animals
1996
Have I Got Dogs!
1993
Sex
The Most Fun You Can Have Without Laughing and Other Quotations
1990
The Form of Music
1997
A Zooful of Animals
1992
poems of magic and spells
1974
Beastly Boys and Ghastly Girls
1964
