BORN TO BE POSTHUMOUS

From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenc ed our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the Grandfath er 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, an d was known in the late 1940s, no less to traipse around in full-length fur coats, clanking bracelets, and an Edwardian beard? An ec centric,...[Read more]