Edward Gorey

Edward St. John Gorey was an American writer and artist noted for his illustrated books. His characteristic penandink drawings often depict vaguely unsettling narrative scenes in Victorian and Edwardian settings.

Edward St. John Gorey was born in Chicago. His parents, Helen Dunham and Edward Lee Gorey, divorced in 1936 when he was 11, then remarried in 1952 when he was 27. One of his stepmothers was Corinna Mura , a cabaret singer who had a small role in the classic film Casablanca as the woman playing the guitar while singing La Marseillaise at Ricks Caf Amricain. His father was briefly a journalist. Goreys maternal greatgrandmother, Helen St. John Garvey, was a popular nineteenthcentury greeting card writer and artist, from whom he claimed to have inherited his talents.

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