Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious

Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
- 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.
The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense.

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.
Country USA
Brand Little, Brown and Company
Manufacturer Little, Brown and Company
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9.78032E+12
ReleaseDate 2018-11-06
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780316188548

Country	USA
Brand	Little, Brown and Company
Manufacturer	Little, Brown and Company
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9.78032E+12
ReleaseDate	2018-11-06
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780316188548

Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey

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