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...Edward Gorey seemed to live in a world of his own. Not only because he was reclusive and remained a bachelor for life, but because he isolated himself from conventional art trends. His drawings were fanciful and ambiguous, and he refused to explain them. He shunned publicity and Hollywood fame. He expressed strong convictions and behaved in ways that did not necessarily jibe with conventional belief...
...Karen Wilkin, who co-authored the book The World of Edward Gorey with Clifford Ross, suggests Gorey's drawings were superficially grim, but their bizarre aspects added a humorous tone...
...Edward Gorey was born in Chicago in 1925, to a Roman Catholic newspaper report and Episcopalian mother. He began to read and draw at a very early age; he first picked up a pencil at only 18 months, drawing passing trains. But he told the Christian Science Monitor that he was not quite impressed by those drawings...
...Ross became familiar with Gorey's work through a critical analysis; he completed his senior thesis at Yale on Edward Gorey. Though he met Gorey for the first time when he was 18 years old, it was only later in life that he established the close friendship that would last until Gorey's death...
...Ross, together with Karen Wilkin, published The World of Edward Gorey in 1996 to honor the work of the "sophisticated, fine artist...