Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius 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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