![]() ![]() ![]() They looked like irregular sausages." Two years later, by age three-and-a-half, Gorey had taught himself to read and by age 5, he had read "Dracula" and "Alice in Wonderland." At age 7, he read "Frankenstein" from cover to cover years later, he remarked that he had been bored by much of the novel, but "it hadn't occurred to me that I could skip anything." One year later, a t age 8, he read the works of Victor Hugo.ģ. At the age of one-and-a-half, Gorey produced his first drawings, which featured passing trains, though Gorey later declared, "they showed no talent whatsoever. During the marriage hiatus, though, Gorey's father married Corinna Mura, who appeared in "Casablanca" as the singer and guitarist performing "La Marseillaise" at Rick's Café Américain.Ģ. They divorced when he was 11, in 1936, but remarried in 1952, when Gorey was 27. For 16 years of his life, Edward Gorey's parents were not married. (Gorey also wrote 100 of his own books.)ġ. The above work is a Gorey illustration from "Very Fine Clock" by Muriel Spark, one of some 60 works Gorey illustrated. The American illustrator and author was most well known for his rather macabre black and white illustrations, but considered himself an author first. At the request of reader Karen I., today's "Feel Art Again" post features Edward St. ![]()
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