One of Pierce's friends, the writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, helped him with his campaign.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

George Lucas in fact said when we did an interview with him that he thought one of the reasons he was so comfortable when he got into the movie business because he already knew how to tell a story visually from having looked at Norman Rockwell's covers."

VOA: special.2010.09.20