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Edward Gorey
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American writer, artist, and illustrator (1925–2000)
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Edward Gorey was an American writer, illustrator, costume designer, and puppeteer born in Chicago on February 22, 1925. He served in the United States Army and was educated at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Harvard University. Gorey wrote in English and used several pseudonyms, including Eduard Blutig and Edward Bloody. His notable works include *The Gashlycrumb Tinies*, *The Wolves of Willoughby Chase*, and *For Our Children*.
He received the Tony Award for Best Costume Design and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Scenic Design. Gorey also received the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. He died of heart failure in Hyannis on April 15, 2000. His works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Harry Ransom Center.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- February 22, 1925
- Died
- April 15, 2000
- Works
- 217
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1925
- Active to
- 2000
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 22
- Total plays
- 51
Born in Chicago, Gorey came from a colorful family; his parents, Helen Dunham Garvey and Edward Lee Gorey, divorced in 1936 when he was 11, then remarried in 1952 when he was 27. One of his step-mothers was Corinna Mura, a cabaret singer who had a brief role in the classic film Casablanca. His father was briefly a journalist. Gorey's maternal great-grandmother, Helen St. John Garvey, was a popular 19th century greeting card writer/artist, from whom he claimed to have inherited his talents. <a hr
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines
· 1953 · cited 29,966x
- Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being.
· 2000 · cited 28,616x
- The "What" and "Why" of Goal Pursuits: Human Needs and the Self-Determination of Behavior
· 2000 · cited 24,832x
- Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers
· 1938 · cited 24,554x
- THE USE OF LEAD CITRATE AT HIGH pH AS AN ELECTRON-OPAQUE STAIN IN ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
· 1963 · cited 18,994x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “"Ideally, if anything were any good, it would be indescribable."”
- “"I think style chooses you... if I could choose, I would write like Jane Austen and I would draw like Rembrandt."”
- “"If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point. I'm trying to think if there's sunny nonsense. Sunny, funny nonsense for children—oh, how boring, boring, boring. As Schubert said, there is no happy music. And that's true, there really isn't. And there's probably no happy nonsense, either."”
- “"Of course I believe in graphology, also palmistry, the I Ching, the tarot, astrology, and all those other delicious things you can find in places like thesaurusi (can that be the plural? No, it can't, it must be thesauri), which turn out to mean prognostication by means of snail tracks or something."”
- “"I used to maintain that if it couldn't be put into words it didn't exist; if anything I believe rather the opposite now."”
- “"Well, I'm neither one thing nor the other particularly. I suppose I'm gay. But I don't really identify with it much... I've never said I was gay, and I've never said I wasn't... What I'm trying to say is that I am a person before I am anything else."”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Edward
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Chicago
- Place of death
- Hyannis
- Occupation
- costume designer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Military branch
- United States Army
- Official website
- edwardgorey.org
- Image
- Gorey28.jpg
Show 14 more facts
- Commons category
- Edward Gorey
- date of birth
- 1925-02-22
- date of death
- 2000-04-15
- cause of death
- heart failure
- manner of death
- natural causes
- nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Scenic Design
- pseudonym
- Groeda Weyrd
- topic's main category
- Category:Edward Gorey
- has works in the collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- birth name
- Edward Saint John Gorey
- writing language
- English language
- P12674
- Fred Astaire
- official shop URL
- shop.edwardgorey.org
- sexual orientation
- homosexuality
Sources (15)
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