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Born to Be Posthumous - The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey (Hardcover)
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Born to Be Posthumous - The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey (Hardcover)
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The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of
macabre nonsense. 'A genius book about a bookish genius' Daniel
Handler, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events From The
Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly
funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our
culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil
Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the Grandfather of
Goth. But who was this man, who lived with over twenty thousand
books and six cats, who roomed with Frank O'Hara at Harvard, and
was known - in the late 1940s, no less - to traipse around in
full-length fur coats, clanking bracelets, and an Edwardian beard?
An eccentric, a gregarious recluse, an enigmatic auteur of
whimsically morbid masterpieces, yes - but who was the real Edward
Gorey behind the Oscar Wildean pose? He published over a hundred
books and illustrated works by Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot, Edward
Lear, John Updike, Charles Dickens, Hilaire Belloc, Muriel Spark,
Bram Stoker, Gilbert & Sullivan, and others. At the same time,
he was a deeply complicated and conflicted individual, a man whose
art reflected his obsessions with the disquieting and the darkly
hilarious. Based on newly uncovered correspondence and interviews
with personalities as diverse as John Ashbery, Donald Hall, Lemony
Snicket, Neil Gaiman, and Anna Sui, Born to be Posthumous draws
back the curtain on the eccentric genius and mysterious life of
Edward Gorey.
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