![]() ![]() Upon discharge in 1946, Gorey entered Harvard College. He spent the rest of World War II stationed at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, testing site for mortars and poison gas, where he served as a company clerk. Parker high school, and after graduating, he studied at the Chicago Art Institute for a semester before being inducted into the U.S. At nine, he read Rover Boys books while at summer camp and formed a lifelong admiration for the series. By the time he was five, he had read Dracula and Alice in Wonderland, works that would have a lasting effect upon his artistic sensibility. Other strangenesses emerged.īy the age of three, young Edward had taught himself to read, revealing the precocity that would enable him to skip both first and fifth grades in elementary school. They were not ordinary parents: they divorced when their son was eleven and remarried when he was twenty-seven. ![]() John Gorey, author and artist and master of the macabre, was born ordinarily enough on Februin Chicago, Illinois, the son of Edward Leo Gorey, a newspaperman, and Helen Dunham (Garvey) Gorey, a government clerk. ![]() ![]() Features Edward Gorey and the Eccentric MacabreĮdward St. ![]()
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