{"product_id":"9780316188548","title":"Born to Be Posthumous: Edward Gorey","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThe Gashlycrumb Tinies\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eThe Doubtful Guest\u003c\/i\u003e, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the Grandfather of Goth.\u003cbr\u003eBut who was this man, who lived with over twenty thousand books and six cats, who roomed with Frank O'Hara at Harvard, and was known--in the late 1940s, no less--to traipse around in full-length fur coats, clanking bracelets, and an Edwardian beard? An eccentric, a gregarious recluse, an enigmatic auteur of whimsically morbid masterpieces, yes--but who \u003ci\u003ewas\u003c\/i\u003e the real Edward Gorey behind the Oscar Wildean pose?\u003cbr\u003eHe published over a hundred books and illustrated works by Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot, Edward Lear, John Updike, Charles Dickens, Hilaire Belloc, Muriel Spark, Bram Stoker, Gilbert \u0026amp; Sullivan, and others. At the same time, he was a deeply complicated and conflicted individual, a man whose art reflected his obsessions with the disquieting and the darkly hilarious.\u003cbr\u003eBased on newly uncovered correspondence and interviews with personalities as diverse as John Ashbery, Donald Hall, Lemony Snicket, Neil Gaiman, and Anna Sui, BORN TO BE POSTHUMOUS draws back the curtain on the eccentric genius and mysterious life of Edward Gorey.","brand":"Little, Brown \u0026 Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46355999097004,"sku":"9780316188548","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/6626\/7820\/files\/15368483482300.jpg?v=1781631141","url":"https:\/\/giftshop.carlemuseum.org\/products\/9780316188548","provider":"The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}