John Evangelist Walsh

John Evangelist Walsh (1927–2015) was an American author, biographer, editor, historian and journalist. He was best known for leading a team of seven editors tasked with creating a condensed version of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible. Born in 1927, he first began working in journalism while serving in the US Army from 1946 to 1948, after which he worked for a variety of publishing companies, mainly condensing literature. He retired in his early 70s, while still regularly writing and publishing novels. He died on March 19, 2015, in Monroe, Wisconsin, at age 87. Provided by Wikipedia