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092    BIO|bGOREY 
100 1  Gorey, Edward,|d1925-2000,|eartist. 
245 10 Born to be posthumous :|bthe eccentric life and mysterious
       genius of Edward Gorey /|cMark Dery. 
246 30 Eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bLittle, Brown and Company,|c2018. 
264  4 |c©2018 
300    viii, 503 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-484) and 
       index. 
520    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. 
600 10 Gorey, Edward,|d1925-2000. 
650  0 Authors, American|vBiography. 
655  7 Biographies.|2lcgft 
700 1  Dery, Mark,|d1959-|eauthor.