Gorey, Edward
Gorey, Edward (1925– ),artist, illustrator, printmaker, and writer of macabre picture books, including many miniature books and alphabets. Gorey studied at the Chicago Art Institute and Harvard, and later worked for the publisher Doubleday Anchor Books as a designer and cover artist, and illustrated children's books, such as Florence P. Heide's The Shrinking of Treehorn (1971) and Donald & the …, with Peter F. Neumeyer. His real fame has come from humorously exaggerated Gothic tales, self‐illustrated with his black‐and‐white ink drawings with heavy crosshatching. These books, including The Unstrung Harp (1953), The Doubtful Guest (1957), and The Sopping Thursday (1970) bear the look of Victorian illustrated texts but recount ominous events and strange disappearances. Although picture books, his works emphasize the adult nature of the content of fairy tales and satirize the conventions of...
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