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Nursery Crimes: Edward Gorey’s Morbid Nonsense

Presented by Harry Ransom Center at Harry Ransom Center, Austin TX

Feb 21 2019
Nursery Crimes: Edward Gorey’s Morbid Nonsense

Mark Dery explores the obscure influences of Gorey’s work.

Critics never quite knew what to make of Edward Gorey (1925-2000), the author and illustrator whose darkly droll tales have influenced TimBurton, Lemony Snicket, Alison Bechdel, and Guillermo del Toro. In this illustrated lecture, cultural critic Mark Dery, author of Little, Brown and Company’s “Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey,” explores the obscure influences haunting Gorey’s work.

Learn about some of Dery’s research on Gorey:
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Harry Ransom Center

300 West 21st Street, Austin, TX 78712

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