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Edward S. Gorey '50, the author and illustrator whose dark drawings found humor in death, passed away on Saturday...
...Gorey's best-selling books used rhyme, whimsy and a distinctive cross-hatched style to depict the macabre, from the 26 dying children (one for each letter of the alphabet) of The Gashlycrumb Tinies to the hook-nosed visitor of The Doubtful Guest, who never seems to leave...
...French concentrator at Harvard, Gorey spent his undergraduate years in Eliot House after serving in the army during World...
...roomed with the poet Frank O'Hara and was friends with the poet John Ashbery. Gorey joined Cambridge's Poets Theater with O'Hara, where he worked as a designer, director and playwright...
...Headless Bust, along with The Haunted Tea-Cosy, made me giggle less than Gorey's other little books. I had to wonder, upon putting the book down, whether Gorey has grown tired of the very charms that are winning over more and more of the outside world...