![]() ![]() When he retired from the Heinz Endowments in 2008 he was asked to lead The Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media at St Vincent College where he is still a fellow. Then he became the President of the Heinz Endowments, which helped to fund of the Mr Rogers programming. ![]() he was a journalist for 30 years culminating in being the editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1990 to 1998. The Good Neighbor is Max King’s first book. Once the family was convinced of the need, they wanted King to be the author. Max King convinced the family of the need for a biography, not because he wanted to be the one to write it, but because he understood the importance of a good biography to legacy of Mister Rogers. ![]() At the end of the book, the author Max King, says that the family took a good bit of convincing to participate in the biography because Mr Rogers had been resistant to a biography when he was alive. It is surprising that it has taken 15 years since his death for an actual biography of Fred Rogers to be written. Summary: Fred Rogers was the person the person you saw on tv. ![]()
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