Born to Be Posthumous
Julie Phillips “S is for Susan who perished of fits”: Mark Dery offers the first major biography of Edward Gorey. Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey , by Mark Dery, Little, Brown, 503 pages, $35 • • • By his mid-twenties, the artist and illustrator Edward Gorey had already settled on his signature look: long fur coat, jeans, canvas high-tops, rings on all his fingers, and the full beard of a Victorian intellectual. His enigmatic illustrations of equally fur-coated and Firbankian men in parlors, long-skirted women, and hollow-eyed,...
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