Edward Gorey
Author · 1925–2000

Edward Gorey

Edward Gorey was an American writer, artist, and illustrator (1925–2000). Born in Chicago.

Our catalogue lists 3 books by Edward Gorey, mostly ghost story and circus fiction. They span 1959 to 1983. The most-read is Edward Gorey's Haunted Looking Glass (1959).

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Edward Gorey was an American writer and artist noted for his macabre illustrated books. Gorey is typically described as an illustrator. His books can be found in the humor and cartoon sections of major bookstores, but books like *The Object Lesson* have earned serious critical respect as works of surrealist art. His experimentations — creating books that were wordless, books that were literally matchbox-sized, pop-up books, books entirely populated by inanimate objects — complicates matters still further. As Gorey told Richard Dyer of The Boston Globe, "Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable." Gorey classified his own work as literary nonsense, the genre made most famous by Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear. (Source: Wikipedia.)

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