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

Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
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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 EventsFrom 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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Mark Dery. Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey

Contents

A Good Mystery

A Suspiciously Normal Childhood

Mauve Sunsets

“Terribly Intellectual and Avant-Garde and All That Jazz”

Sacred Monsters

“Like a Captive Balloon, Motionless Between Sky and Earth”

Hobbies Odd—​Ballet, the Gotham Book Mart, Silent Film, Feuillade

Épater le Bourgeois

“Working Perversely to Please Himself”

Nursery Crimes—The Gashlycrumb Tinies and Other Outrages

Worshipping in Balanchine’s Temple

Mail Bonding—Collaborations

Dracula

Mystery!

Strawberry Lane Forever

Flapping Ankles, Crazed Teacups, and Other Entertainments

“Awake in the Dark of Night Thinking Gorey Thoughts”

The Curtain Falls

Acknowledgments

A Note on Sources

A Gorey Bibliography

Notes. A Note on Notes

Introduction: A Good Mystery

Chapter 1. A Suspiciously Normal Childhood: Chicago, 1925–44

Chapter 2. Mauve Sunsets: Dugway, 1944–46

Chapter 3. “Terribly Intellectual and Avant-Garde and All That Jazz”: Harvard, 1946–50

Chapter 4. Sacred Monsters: Cambridge, 1950–53

Chapter 5. “Like a Captive Balloon, Motionless Between Sky and Earth”: New York, 1953

Chapter 6. Hobbies Odd—Ballet, the Gotham Book Mart, Silent Film, Feuillade, 1953

Chapter 7. Épater le Bourgeois: 1954–58

Chapter 8. “Working Perversely to Please Himself”: 1959–63

Chapter 9. Nursery Crimes—The Gashlycrumb Tinies and Other Outrages: 1963

Chapter 10. Worshipping in Balanchine’s Temple: 1964–67

Chapter 11. Mail Bonding—Collaborations: 1967–72

Chapter 12. Dracula: 1973–78

Chapter 13. Mystery!: 1979–85

Chapter 14. Strawberry Lane Forever: Cape Cod, 1985–2000

Chapter 15. Flapping Ankles, Crazed Teacups, and Other Entertainments

Chapter 16. “Awake in the Dark of Night Thinking Gorey Thoughts”

Chapter 17. The Curtain Falls

About the Author

Also by Mark Dery

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For Margot Mifflin, whose wild surmise—“What about a Gorey biography?”—begat this book. Without her unwavering support, generous beyond measure, it would have remained just that: a gleam in her eye. I owe her this—and more than tongue can tell.

Don Bachardy, Portrait of Edward Gorey (1974), graphite on paper. (Don Bachardy and Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California. Image provided by the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.)

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This time they would stay put: apart from his time in the army, Ted lived there until he packed his bags for Harvard in September of ’46; Helen would call 2620 North Lakeview home until she moved to the Cape in the mid-’70s.

Chances are she picked that address because it was convenient—a walk of about a half dozen blocks—to the Francis W. Parker School, where, a year earlier, thirteen-year-old Ted had entered the ninth grade. It was there that Gorey’s sense of himself as an artist would take shape. At Parker, the outlines of the Gorey persona—eccentrically brilliant, quick with the offhand quip, charismatic and sociable yet unselfconsciously himself—would come into focus.

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