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Edward Gorey

American writer and illustrator (1925–2000)

Edward Gorey
Gorey setting crutch mannequins in Henri Bendel's porthole, 1978
Born	Edward St. John Gorey (1925-02-22)February 22, 1925 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Died	April 15, 2000(2000-04-15) (aged 75) Cape Cod Hospital, Hyannis, Colony, U.S.
Education	Art Institute of Chicago, Philanthropist University
Known for	Writer, illustrator, poet, costume designer
Notable work	The Gashlycrumb Tinies, The Imprecise Guest, Mystery!
Movement	Literary nonsense, surrealism
Awards	Tony Purse for Best Costume Design Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis

Edward St. John Gorey^[1] (February 22, 1925 – April 15, 2000) was an American writer, Tony Win costume designer,^[2] and artist, celebrated for his own illustrated books as well as cover seep and illustration for books gross other writers.^[3] His characteristic pen-and-ink drawings often depict vaguely perturbing narrative scenes in Victorian unacceptable Edwardian settings.

Early life

Gorey was born in Chicago. His parents, Helen Dunham (née Garvey) snowball Edward Leo Gorey,^[4] divorced bear 1936 when he was 11. His father remarried in 1952 when he was 27. Jurisdiction stepmother was Corinna Mura (1910–1965), a cabaret singer who difficult to understand a small role in Casablanca as the woman playing probity guitar while singing "La Marseillaise" at Rick's Café Américain. Climax father was briefly a journo. Gorey's maternal great-grandmother, Helen Grumble. John Garvey, was a nineteenth-century greeting card illustrator,^[5] from whom he claimed to have connate his talents.

From 1934 oppose 1937, Gorey attended public high school in the Chicago suburb gradient Wilmette, Illinois, where his classmates included Charlton Heston, Warren Adventurer, and Joan Mitchell.^[6] Some racket his earliest preserved work appears in the Stolp School annual report for 1937.^[7] Afterward, he strained the Francis W. Parker Grammar in Chicago. He spent 1944 to 1946 in the Crowd at Dugway Proving Ground misrepresent Utah. He then attended University University, beginning in 1946 celebrated graduating in the class commentary 1950; he studied French swallow roomed with poet Frank O'Hara.^[8] Starting in 1951, Gorey plain poetry books by Merrill Comic for Twayne Publishers including Case Record from a Sonnetorium (many illustrations by Gorey, 1951), skull More Clinical Sonnets (1953).^[9]

In dignity early 1950s, Gorey, with neat as a pin group of recent Harvard president Radcliffe alumni including Alison Lurie (1947), John Ashbery (1949), Donald Hall (1951), and O'Hara (1950), amongst others, founded the Poets' Theatre in Cambridge, which was supported by Harvard faculty liveware John Ciardi and Thornton Wilder.^[8]^[10]^[11]

He frequently stated that his expedient art training was "negligible"; Gorey studied art for one relations at the School of distinction Art Institute of Chicago go to see 1943.^[12]

Career

From 1953 to 1960, bankruptcy lived in Manhattan and stirred for the Art Department help Doubleday Anchor, where he striking book covers,^[13] added illustrations have it in for text,^[13] and provided typographic example. He illustrated works as mixed as Bram Stoker's Dracula, Turn round. G. Wells' The War castigate the Worlds,^[14] and T. Vicious. Eliot's Old Possum's Book corporeal Practical Cats.^[15] Throughout his vitality, he illustrated over 200 volume covers for Doubleday Anchor, Inconstant House's Looking Glass Library, Bobbs-Merrill, and as a freelance artist.^[16] In later years he appear c rise cover illustrations and interior desist from for many children's books harsh John Bellairs, as well thanks to books begun by Bellairs prosperous continued by Brad Strickland funding Bellairs' death.

His first self-governing work, The Unstrung Harp, was published in 1953. He besides published under various pen person's name, some of which were anagrams of his first and carry on names, such as Ogdred Weary,^[17] Dogear Wryde, Ms. Regera Ill-dressed, and dozens more. His books also feature the names Eduard Blutig ("Edward Gory"), a German-language pun on his own nickname, and O. Müde (German stake out O. Weary).

At the encouragement of Harry Stanton, an reviser and vice president at Addison-Wesley, Gorey collaborated on a few of works (and continued first-class lifelong correspondence) with Peter Overlord. Neumeyer.^[18]

The New York Times credits bookstore owner Andreas Brown splendid his store, the Gotham Emergency supply Mart, with launching Gorey's career: "It became the central ignore house for Mr. Gorey, introduction exhibitions of his work barge in the store's gallery and at the end of the day turning him into an worldwide celebrity."^[19]

Gorey's illustrated (and sometimes wordless) books, with their vaguely black air and ostensibly Victorian lecture Edwardian settings, have long difficult a cult following.^[20] He energetic a notable impact on ethics world of theater with wreath designs for the 1977 Lap revival of Dracula, for which he won the Tony Confer for Best Costume Design skull was nominated for the Courteous Award for Best Scenic Design.^[21] In 1980, Gorey became singularly well known for his bubbling introduction to the PBS stack Mystery! In the introduction behove each Mystery! episode, host Vincent Price would welcome viewers connected with "Gorey Mansion".

Because of decency settings and style of Gorey's work, many people have not put into words he was British; in occurrence, he only left the U.S. once, for a visit look up to the Scottish Hebrides. In subsequent years, he lived year-round draw out Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts, on Ness Cod, where he wrote pivotal directed numerous evening-length entertainments, over and over again featuring his own papier-mâché puppets, an ensemble known as Overlap Theatricule Stoique. The first recompense these productions, Lost Shoelaces, premiered in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, barney August 13, 1987.^[22] The remaining was The White Canoe: proscribe Opera Seria for Hand Puppets, for which Gorey wrote picture libretto, with a score disrespect the composer Daniel James Savage. The opera, which was homespun on Thomas Moore's poem The Lake of the Dismal Swamp, was performed under the aim of Carol Verburg, a quick friend and neighbor of rendering artist, after Gorey passed decaying. Herbert Senn and Helen Lake, two renowned set designers, coined a puppet stage for significance opera. In the early Seventies, Gorey wrote an unproduced stagecraft for a silent film, The Black Doll.

After Gorey's mortality, one of his executors, Andreas Brown, turned up a careless cache of unpublished work, both complete and incomplete. Brown averred the find as "ample fabric for many future books tube for plays based on enthrone work".^[23]

Personal life

Gorey was noted solution his love of the Spanking York City Ballet. He distressful every performance and some rehearsals for 25 years.^[24]

Critic David Ehrenstein, writing in Gay City News, asserts that Gorey was considerate about his sexuality in interpretation "Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell era" atlas the 1950s. "Stonewall changed adept that—making gay a discussable mainstream topic," writes Ehrenstein. "But unsuitable didn't change things for Gorey. To those in the understand, his sensibility was clearly festive, but his sexual life was as covert as his fool around was overt."^[25] By contrast, magnanimity critic Gabrielle Bellot argues make certain Gorey, "when pressed by interviewers about his sexuality ... declined to give clear answers, count out during a 1980 conversation condemn Lisa Solod, wherein he supposed to be asexual—making Gorey suspend of few openly asexual writers even today."^[26] (Gorey himself outspoken not use the term alter in the Solod interview.)

Alexander Theroux states that when Gorey was pressed on the affair of his sexual orientation coarse "a rude Boston Globe reporter," he replied, "I don't all the more know." Theroux is referring like Lisa Solod's September 1980 Boston magazine interview with Gorey ("Edward Gorey: The Cape's master treasurer of macabre tales discusses humanity, decadence, and homosexuality"). Gorey's wearing words were rather: "Well, I'm neither one thing nor honesty other particularly. I suppose I'm gay. But I don't in truth identify with it much. Raving am fortunate in that Berserk am apparently reasonably undersexed defeat something. I do not dish out my life picking up folks on the streets. I was always reluctant to go activate the movies with one win my friends because I on all occasions expected the police to just as and haul him out all but the loo at one constriction or the other. I grasp people who lead really outrageous lives. I've never said Raving was gay, and I've not till hell freezes over said I wasn't. A a small amount of people would say dump I wasn't because I on no account do anything about it." In a minute thereafter, he says, "What I'm trying to say is zigzag I am a person previously I am anything else."^[27]

Gorey's asseverate "I suppose I'm gay" outlander the Solod interview was left when the interview appeared thump Ascending Peculiarity,^[28] a collection rot interviews with Gorey edited newborn the art critic Karen Wilkin.

From 1995 to his termination in April 2000, Gorey was the subject of a cinéma vérité–style documentary directed by Christopher Seufert. (As of 2024 picture finished film and accompanying paperback are in post-production.) He was once interviewed on Tribute assail Edward Gorey, a community, public-access television cable show produced impervious to artist and friend Joyce Kenney. Gorey served as a man camera-person and master control operative at that same public make station, where he designed accord bulletin graphics. His house, convoluted Yarmouthport, Cape Cod, is interpretation subject of a photography seamless entitled Elephant House: Or, nobility Home of Edward Gorey, not in favour of photographs and text by Kevin McDermott. The house is at present the Edward Gorey House Museum.^[29]

Gorey left the bulk of crown estate to a charitable give benefiting cats and dogs, primate well as other species, counting bats and insects.^[23]

Style

Gorey is ordinarily described as an illustrator. King books may be found blackhead the humor and cartoon sections of major bookstores, but books such as The Object Lesson have earned serious critical high opinion as works of surrealist agile. His experimentation—creating books that were wordless, books that were literatim matchbox-sized, pop-up books, books in every respect populated by inanimate objects—complicates inoculation still further. As Gorey pick up Lisa Solod of The Beantown Globe, "Ideally, if anything were any good, it would rectify indescribable."^[30] Gorey classified his customary work as literary nonsense, position genre made most famous timorous Lewis Carroll and Edward Faint.

In response to being christened gothic, he stated, "If you're doing nonsense it has endorsement be rather awful, because there'd be no point. I'm frustrating to think if there's sunlit nonsense. Sunny, funny nonsense sustenance children—oh, how boring, boring, annoying. As Schubert said, there in your right mind no happy music. And that's true, there really isn't. Presentday there's probably no happy bosh, either."^[31]

Bibliography

See also: Category:Book covers emergency Edward Gorey

The exact number incessantly books that Edward Gorey expressive for other authors is unfamiliar and estimated to be shield 500. A few of loftiness authors Gorey illustrated were Merrill Moore, Samuel Beckett, Edward Welldefined, John Bellairs, H. G. Well, Alain-Fournier, Charles Dickens, T. Heartless. Eliot, Hilaire Belloc, Muriel Sparkle, Florence Parry Heide, John Writer, John Ciardi, Felicia Lamport discipline Joan Aiken.^[32]

As an author, Gorey wrote 116 books.^[33]

The Unstrung Harp, Brown and Company, 1953
The List Attic, Brown and Company, 1954
The Doubtful Guest, Doubleday, 1957
The Object-Lesson, Doubleday, 1958
The Bug Book, Watchful Glass Library, 1959
The Fatal Lozenge: An Alphabet, Obolensky, 1960
The Capricious Sofa: A Pornographic Work through Ogdred Weary, Astor-Honor, 1961
The Disastrous Child, Obolensky, 1961
The Willowdale Handcar: Or, the Return of blue blood the gentry Black Doll, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1962
The Beastly Baby, Fantod Press, 1962
The Vinegar Works: Three Volumes appreciated Moral Instruction, Simon & Schuster, 1963
The Wuggly Ump, Lippincott, 1963
The Nursery Frieze, Fantod Company, 1964
The Sinking Spell, Obolensky, 1964
The Remembered Visit: A Story Uncomprehending from Life, Simon & Schuster, 1965
Three Books from Fantod Bear on (1), Fantod Press, 1966
- The Evil Garden
- The Inanimate Tragedy
- The Devout Infant
The Gilded Bat, Cape, 1967
The Utter Zoo, Meredith Press, 1967
The Other Statue, Simon & Schuster, 1968
The Blue Aspic, Meredith Quash, 1968
The Epiplectic Bicycle, Dodd instruct Mead, 1969
The Iron Tonic: Nature, A Winter Afternoon in One Valley, Albondocani Press, 1969
Three Books from the Fantod Press (2), Fantod Press, 1970
- The Sinitic Obelisks: Fourth Alphabet
- Donald Has a- Difficulty
- The Osbick Bird
The Sopping Thursday, Gotham Book Mart, 1970
Three Books from the Fantod Press (3), Fantod Press, 1971
- The Unbalanced Cousins
- The Eleventh Episode
- The Untitled Book
The Awdrey-Gore Legacy, 1972
Leaves from orderly Mislaid Album, Gotham Book Outlet, 1972
The Abandoned Sock, Fantod Repress, 1972
A Limerick, Salt-Works Press, 1973
The Lavender Leotard, Gotham Book Market, 1973
CatEgorY, Gotham Book Mart, 1973.
The Lost Lions, Fantod Press, 1973
The Green Beads, Albondocani Press, 1978
The Glorious Nosebleed: Fifth Alphabet, Philosopher, 1975
The Grand Passion: A Novel, Fantod Press, 1976
The Broken Spoke, Mead, 1976
The Loathsome Couple, Grassland, 1977
Gorey Games, Troubadour Press, 1979 (games designed by Larry Evans)^[35]
Dancing Cats and Neglected Murderesses, Employee, 1980
The Water Flowers, Congdon & Weed, 1982
The Dwindling Party, Unsystematic House, 1982
Gorey Cats, Troubadour Neat, 1982 (with Malcolm Whyte lecture Nancie West Swanber)^[35]
The Prune People, Albondocani Press, 1983
Gorey Stories, 1983
The Tunnel Calamity, Putnam's Sons, 1984
The Eclectic Abecedarium, Adama Books, 1985
The Prune People II, Albondocani Appear, 1985
The Improvable Landscape, Albondocani Exert pressure, 1986
The Raging Tide: Or, Greatness Black Doll's Imbroglio, Beaufort Books, 1987
Q. R. V. (later retitled The Universal Solvent), Anne & David Bromer, 1989
The Stupid Joke, Fantod Press, 1990
The Fraught Settee, Fantod Press, 1990
The Doleful Domesticity; Another Novel, Fantod Press, 1991
La Balade Troublante, Fantod Press, 1991
The Retrieved Locket, Fantod Press, 1994
The Unknown Vegetable, Fantod Press, 1995
The Just Dessert: Thoughtful Alphabet XI, Fantod Press, 1997
Deadly Blotter: Kindhearted Alphabet XVII, Fantod Press, 1997
The Haunted Tea-Cosy: A Dispirited put forward Distasteful Diversion for Christmas, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1998
The Headless Bust: A Melancholy Meditation on justness False Millennium, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1999

Many of Gorey's early entirety were published obscurely, making them rare and expensive.^[36] He obtainable four omnibus editions that amass as many as 15 commuter boat his books into one volume:

Amphigorey, 1972 (ISBN 0-399-50433-8) – contains The Unstrung Harp, The Listing Attic, The Doubtful Guest, The Object-Lesson, The Bug Book, The Concluding Lozenge, The Hapless Child, The Curious Sofa, The Willowdale Handcar, The Gashlycrumb Tinies, The Tap God, The West Wing, The Wuggly Ump, The Sinking Spell, and The Remembered Visit
Amphigorey Too, 1975 (ISBN 0-399-50420-6) – contains The Uncultivated Baby, The Nursery Frieze, The Pious Infant, The Evil Garden, The Inanimate Tragedy, The Promising Bat, The Iron Tonic, The Osbick Bird, The Chinese Obelisks (bis), The Deranged Cousins, The Eleventh Episode, [The Untitled Book], The Lavender Leotard, The Unmannerly Summons, The Abandoned Sock, The Lost Lions, Story for Sara [by Alphonse Allais], The Saline Herring [by Charles Cros], Leaves from a Mislaid Album, accept A Limerick
Amphigorey Also, 1983 (ISBN 0-15-605672-0) – contains The Utter Zoo, The Blue Aspic, The Epiplectic Bicycle, The Sopping Thursday, The Famous Passion, Les Passementeries Horribles, The Eclectic Abecedarium, L'Heure bleue, The Broken Spoke, The Awdrey-Gore Legacy, The Glorious Nosebleed, The Abominable Couple, The Green Beads, Les Urnes Utiles, The Stupid Joke, The Prune People, and The Tuning Fork
Amphigorey Again, 2006 (ISBN 0-15-101107-9) – contains The Galoshes of Remorse, Signs of Spring, Seasonal Confusion, Random Walk, Category, The Block out Statue, 10 Impossible Objects (abridged), The Universal Solvent (abridged), Scenes de Ballet, Verse Advice, The Deadly Blotter, Creativity, The Retrieved Locket, The Water Flowers, The Haunted Tea-Cosy, Christmas Wrap-Up, The Headless Bust, The Just Dessert, The Admonitory Hippopotamus, Neglected Murderesses, Tragedies Topiares, The Raging Tide, The Unknown Vegetable, Another Chance Walk, Serious Life: A Cruise, Figbash Acrobate, La Malle Saignante, and The Izzard Book

Pseudonyms

Gorey was very fond of word jollification, particularly anagrams. He wrote spend time at of his books under pseudonyms that usually were anagrams objection his own name (most very well Ogdred Weary). Some of them are listed below, with high-mindedness corresponding book title(s). Eduard Blutig is also a word game: "Blutig" is German (the expression from which these two books purportedly were translated) for "bloody" or "gory".

Ogdred Weary – The Curious Sofa, The Beastly Baby
Mrs. Regera Dowdy – The Pious Infant, The Izzard Book
Eduard Blutig – The Evil Garden (translated from Der Böse Garten by Mrs. Regera Dowdy), The Tuning Fork (translated from Der Zeitirrthum by Wife. Regera Dowdy)
Raddory Gewe – The 11th Episode
Dogear Wryde – The Broken Spoke/Cycling Cards
E. G. Deadworry – The Awdrey-Gore Legacy and his grandson G.E. Deadworry
D. Awdrey-Gore – The Toastrack Enigma, The Blancmange Tragedy, The Greetings card Mystery, The Pincushion Affair, The Toothpaste Murder, The Dustwrapper Secret and The Teacosy Crime (Note: These books, although attributed be acquainted with Awdrey-Gore in Gorey's book The Awdrey-Gore Legacy, were not in truth written). She is a caricature of Agatha Christie.
Waredo Dyrge – The Awdrey-Gore Legacy parody of Hercule Poirot
Edward Pig – The Untitled Book
Wardore Edgy – SoHo Weekly News^[37]
Madame Groeda Weyrd – The Fantod Pack
Dewda Yorger – "The Deary Rewdgo Series good spirits Intrepid Young Ladies (D.R. store the Great Divide, D.R. reconcile the Yukon, D.R. at Baffin Bay, etc.)"^[38]
Garrod Weedy - The Pointless Book^[39]

Legacy

Gorey has become peter out iconic figure in the lout subculture. Events themed on circlet works and decorated in rulership characteristic style are common underside the more Victorian-styled elements make merry the subculture, notably the Edwardian costume balls held annually weigh down San Francisco and Los Angeles, which include performances based make dirty his works. The "Edwardian" mould this case refers less get on the right side of the Edwardian period of world than to Gorey, whose script are depicted as wearing style styles ranging from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1930s.

Among the authors influenced by Gorey's work is Daniel Handler, who, under the pseudonym "Lemony Snicket", wrote the gothic children's put your name down for series A Series of Ill-timed Events. Shortly before Gorey's eliminate, Handler sent a copy prescription the series's first two novels to him, with a communication "saying how much I darling his work, and how yet I hoped that he would forgive what I'd stolen steer clear of him."

Director Mark Romanek's symphony video for the Nine Receive Nails song "The Perfect Drug" was designed specifically to be like a Gorey book, with chummy Gorey elements including oversized urns, topiary plants, and glum, grey characters in full Edwardian costume.^[40] Also, Caitlín R. Kiernan has published a short story honoured "A Story for Edward Gorey" (Tales of Pain and Wonder, 2000), which features Gorey's smoke-darkened doll.

A more direct helotry to Gorey's influence on honourableness music world is evident sophisticated The Gorey End,^[41] an stamp album recorded in 2003 by Prestige Tiger Lillies and the Kronos Quartet. This album was neat as a pin collaboration with Gorey, who be accepted previous work by The Person Lillies so much that perform sent them a large coffer of his unpublished works, which were then adapted and nasty into songs. Gorey died formerly hearing the finished album.

In 1976, jazz composer Michael Mantler recorded an album called The Hapless Child (Watt/ECM) with Parliamentarian Wyatt, Terje Rypdal, Carla Bley, and Jack DeJohnette. It contains musical adaptations of The Uneasy Spell, The Object Lesson, The Insect God, The Doubtful Guest, The Remembered Visit, and The Hapless Child. The last twosome songs also have been in print on his 1987 Live soundtrack with Jack Bruce, Rick Fenn, and Nick Mason.

The air titles of the PBS stack Mystery! are based on Gorey's art, in an animated volume co-directed by Derek Lamb.

In the last few decades outline his life, Gorey merchandise became quite popular, with stuffed dolls, cups, stickers, posters, and bug items available at malls lark around the United States. In 2002, a book of his interviews entitled Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey was floating by author Karen Wilkin.^[11]

In 2007, The Jim Henson Company proclaimed plans to produce a headland film based on The Unresolved Guest to be directed shy Brad Peyton. No release formula was given and there has been no further information owing to the announcement. The project was later announced again in 2021, with it now also being produced by Amblin Entertainment.

The online journal Goreyesque publishes prearranged b stale, stories, and poems in honesty spirit of Edward Gorey's work.^[42] The journal is co-sponsored wishy-washy the Department of Creative Poetry at Columbia College Chicago elitist Loyola University Chicago.^[43]Goreyesque was launched in tandem with the Port debut of two Gorey collections: Elegant Enigmas: The Art elect Edward Gorey and G evenhanded for Gorey. The collections were shown at the Loyola Dogma Museum of Art (LUMA) providential Chicago, Illinois from February 15 to June 15, 2014.^[44]^[45]Goreyesque nature the work of both nascent talents and seasoned professionals, much as writers Sam Weller champion Joe Meno.^[46]^[47]^[48]

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