In 2005, a televised disaster film titled The Poseidon Adventure, which was a remake of the movie inspired by Gallico's novel, was aired; the Captain, played by Peter Weller, is named after Gallico.

The character Rhayader is loosely based on ornithologist, conservationist and painter Peter Scott, [ citation needed] who also did the illustrations for the first illustrated English edition of the book, using his first wife Elizabeth Jane Howard as the model for Fritha. [11] In 1955, Gallico took an automobile tour of the United States, traveling some 10,000 miles, sponsored by Reader's Digest. [9] He wrote that "it had been almost twenty years since I had traveled extensively through my own country and the changes brought about by two decades would thus stand out." [9] Several stories resulted.Gallico was born in New York City in 1897. His father was the Italian concert pianist, composer and music teacher Paolo Gallico ( Trieste, May 13, 1868 – New York, July 6, 1955), and his mother, Hortense Erlich, came from Austria; they had emigrated to New York in 1895. Gallico's graduation from Columbia University was delayed to 1921, having served a year and a half in the United States Army during World War I. [2] He first achieved notice in the 1920s as a sportswriter, sports columnist, and sports editor of the New York Daily News. In 1948, a spoken word recording featuring Herbert Marshall, with music by Victor Young was issued on Decca records. In 1937, in Gallico's "Farewell to Sport" he stated, "For all her occasional beauty and unquestioned courage, there has always been something faintly ridiculous about the big-time lady athletes." In Fredric Brown's science-fiction novel What Mad Universe, a magazine editor from our own world is accidentally sent to a parallel Earth significantly different from ours; in this parallel world, the editor reads a biography written of a dashing space hero, a figure central to the novel's narrative, which is supposedly written by Paul Gallico. In the 1950s, Gallico spent time in Liechtenstein, where he wrote Ludmila, the retelling of a local legend. [6]

The Snow Goose is a powerful parable of friendship told in the early years of WWII between Philip Rhayader, a disabled man and artist, and a young local girl, Fritha and how they help a Snow Goose injured by a gun shot. Philip ultimately takes his small sailboat across the English Channel to assist in the Dunkirk evacuation, where he is lost at sea. It was published in 1940 as a short story in The Saturday Evening Post, an American magazine. He then expanded it to create a short novella which was published in 1941. In 1971 the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) create a short film featuring Richard Harris and Jenny Agutter, which won a a Golden Globe for Best Movie Made for TV. The television series The Adventures of Hiram Holliday (starring Wally Cox) was adapted from a series of Gallico's stories about a newspaper proofreader who had many adventures dealing with Nazis and spies in Europe on the eve of World War II. The Snow Goose was published in 1941 in The Saturday Evening Post and won the O. Henry Award for short stories in 1941. Critic Robert van Gelder called it "perhaps the most sentimental story that ever has achieved the dignity of a Borzoi [prestige imprint of publisher Knopf] imprint. It is a timeless legend that makes use of every timeless appeal that could be crowded into it." [4] A public library puts it on a list of "tearjerkers." Gallico made no apologies, saying that "in the contest between sentiment and 'slime,' 'sentiment' remains so far out in front, as it always has and always will among ordinary humans that the calamity-howlers and porn merchants have to increase the decibels of their lamentations, the hideousness of their violence and the mountainous piles of their filth to keep in the race at all." [5] In his New York Times obituary, Molly Ivins said that "to say that Mr. Gallico was prolific hardly begins to describe his output." [1] He wrote 41 books and numerous short stories, 20 theatrical movies, 12 TV movies, and had a TV series based on his Hiram Holliday short stories. There is an abandoned lighthouse at the mouth of the River Aelred. It is soon occupied by a lonely man. He is deformed and he lives in this isolated place; it is his safe haven. His name is PhilipTondemo Nezumi Daikatsuyaku: Manxmouse ( Manxmouse's Great Activity, known in English as The Legend of Manxmouse) For me, the fact that this book is a cry for hope, a nod to lost loves, and a bit of bright wing-feather while being written in the middle of a lot of angst, pain, and terror, gives it a nobility of its own. Snow Goose recording". The Times. No.59868. London, England. 23 November 1976. p.11 . Retrieved 19 May 2019. John Ritchie composed "The Snow Goose" for flute and orchestra in 1982. In 1999 a version for flute and piano was created. [10] Allusions and references to real things [ edit ]

Gallico, Paul (1953). "The savage beast in us". In Birmingham, Frederic A. (ed.). The girls from Esquire. London: Arthur Barker. pp.249–255. In 2014, an excerpt from The Snow Goose was set as a comprehension passage in the Annual ISC Examinations conducted by CISCE. In the late 1930s, he abandoned sports writing for fiction, first writing an essay about this decision entitled "Farewell to Sport" (published in an anthology of his sports writing, also titled Farewell to Sport (1938)), and became a successful writer of short stories for magazines, many appearing in the then-premier fiction outlet, The Saturday Evening Post. His novella The Snow Goose and other works are expanded versions of his magazine stories.During his time in Salcombe, Gallico serialised an account of the sinking of the MV Princess Victoria, the ferry that plied between Larne and Stranraer, an event which left only 44 out of 179 surviving. It was his habit, at this time, to wander in his garden dictating to his assistant Mel Menzies, who then typed the manuscript in the evening, ready for inclusion in the newspaper. Critic Robert van Gelder called it "perhaps the most sentimental story that ever has achieved the dignity of a Borzoi [prestige imprint of publisher Knopf] imprint. It is a timeless legend that makes use of every timeless appeal that could be crowded into it". [2] A public library put it on a list of 'tearjerkers'. Gallico made no apologies, saying that in the contest between sentiment and 'slime', "sentiment remains so far out in front, as it always has and always will among ordinary humans that the calamity-howlers and porn merchants have to increase the decibels of their lamentations, the hideousness of their violence and the mountainous piles of their filth to keep in the race at all." [3] Popular culture [ edit ] Allardice, Lisa (December 19, 2011). "Winter reads: The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico". The Guardian . Retrieved October 13, 2021. The Snow Goose: A Story of Dunkirk is a novella by the American author Paul Gallico. It was first published in 1940 as a short story in The Saturday Evening Post, after which he expanded it to create a short novella which was published on 7 April 1941.

Rothe, Anna, ed. (1947). Current Biography, 1946: Who's News and why. New York: H.W. Wilson Company. p.202. ISBN 978-0-8242-0112-8. War breaks out. The British government pleads for anyone with a boat to sail to Dunkirk to rescue the stranded allied soldiers from the invading German forces.One day Fritha comes to Rhayader's lighthouse and brings the gunshot bird, and this starts the friendship between them. As the bird's wounds heal, so do the wounds in Rhayader's soul, too. And friendship grows deerer.