![]() He spent 1944 to 1946 in the Army at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. Some of his earliest preserved work appears in the Stolp School yearbook for 1937. John Garvey, was a nineteenth-century greeting card illustrator, from whom he claimed to have inherited his talents.įrom 1934 to 1937, Gorey attended public school in the Chicago suburb of Wilmette, Illinois, where his classmates included Charlton Heston, Warren MacKenzie, and Joan Mitchell. ![]() Gorey's maternal great-grandmother, Helen St. ![]() His stepmother was Corinna Mura (1910–1965), a cabaret singer who had a small role in Casablanca as the woman playing the guitar while singing " La Marseillaise" at Rick's Café Américain. His father remarried in 1952 when he was 27. His parents, Helen Dunham (née Garvey) and Edward Leo Gorey, divorced in 1936 when he was 11. His characteristic pen-and-ink drawings often depict vaguely unsettling narrative scenes in Victorian and Edwardian settings.Įdward St. John Gorey (February 22, 1925 – April 15, 2000) was an American writer, Tony Award-winning costume designer, and artist, noted for his own illustrated books as well as cover art and illustration for books by other writers. The Gashlycrumb Tinies, The Doubtful Guest, Mystery!Įdward St. Writer, illustrator, poet, costume designer ![]() Cape Cod Hospital, Hyannis, Massachusetts, U.S.Īrt Institute of Chicago, Harvard University ![]()
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