Biografia Nacque a Chicago nel 1925. I suoi genitori, Helen Dunham ed Edward Lee Gorey, divorziarono quando Edward aveva undici anni e si risposarono nel 1952, quando ne aveva 27. Una delle sue matrigne fu Corinna Mura (1909-1965), una cabarettista che svolse un piccolo ruolo nel film Casablanca, in cui cantò La Marsigliese al Rick's Café Américain. Frequentò diverse scuole elementari locali. Tra il 1944 e il 1946 svolse il servizio militare al Dugway Proving Ground nello Utah. Frequentò Harvard dal 1946 al 1950, dove studiò francese e condivise la stanza con il futuro poeta Frank O'Hara. Sebbene Gorey abbia spesso dichiarato che la sua formazione artistica sia stata insignificante, studiò arte per un semestre presso l'Art Institute of Chicago nel 1943. Illustrò la maggior parte dei libri scritti da John Bellairs.

Opere Gorey ha scritto più di 100 libri, tra i quali:

The Unstrung Harp, Brown and Company, 1953 The Listing Attic, Brown and Company, 1954 The Doubtful Guest, Doubleday, 1957 The Object Lesson, Doubleday, 1958 The Bug Book, Looking Glass Library, 1959 The Fatal Lozenge: An Alphabet, Obolensky, 1960 The Curious Sofa: A Pornographic Tale by Ogdred Weary, Astor-Honor, 1961 The Hapless Child, Obolensky, 1961 The Willowdale Handcar: Or, the Return of the Black Doll, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1962 The Beastly Baby, Fantod Press, 1962 The Vinegar Works: Three Volumes of Moral Instruction, Simon and Schuster, 1963 The Gashlycrumb Tinies The Insect God The West Wing The Wuggly Ump, Lippincott, 1963 The Nursery Frieze, Fantod Press, 1964 The Sinking Spell, Obolensky, 1964 The Remembered Visit: A Story Taken from Life, Simon and Schuster, 1965 Three Books from Fantod Press (1), Fantod Press, 1966 The Evil Garden The Inanimate Tragedy The Pious Infant The Gilded Bat, Cape, 1967 The Utter Zoo, Meredith Press, 1967 The Other Statue, Simon and Schuster, 1968 The Blue Aspic, Meredith Press, 1968 The Epiplectic Bicycle, Dodd and Mead, 1969 The Iron Tonic: Or, A Winter Afternoon in Lonely Valley, Albondocani Press, 1969 Three Books from the Fantod Press (2), Fantod Press, 1970 The Chinese Obelisks: Fourth Alphabet Donald Has a Difficulty The Osbick Bird The Sopping Thursday, Gotham Book Mart, 1970 Three Books from the Fantod Press (3), Fantod Press, 1971 The Deranged Cousins The Eleventh Episode The Untitled Book The Awdrey-Gore Legacy, 1972 Leaves From a Mislaid Album, Gotham Book Mart, 1972 The Abandoned Sock, Fantod Press, 1972 A Limerick, Salt-Works Press, 1973 The Lost Lions, Fantod Press, 1973 The Green Beads, Albondocani Press, 1978 The Glorious Nosebleed: Fifth Alphabet, Mead, 1975 The Grand Passion: A Novel, Fantod Press, 1976 The Broken Spoke, Mead, 1976 The Loathsome Couple, Mead, 1977 Dancing Cats and Neglected Murderesses, Workman, 1980 The Water Flowers, Congdon & Weed, 1982 The Dwindling Party, Random House, 1982 The Prune People, Albondocani Press, 1983 Gorey Stories, 1983 The Tunnel Calamity, Putnam's Sons, 1984 The Eclectic Abecedarium, Adama Books, 1985 The Prune People II, Albondocani Press, 1985 The Improvable Landscape, Albondocani Press, 1986 The Raging Tide: Or, The Black Doll's Imbroglio, Beaufort Books, 1987 Q. R. V. (later retitled The Universal Solvent), Anne & David Bromer, 1989 The Stupid Joke, Fantod Press, 1990 The Fraught Settee, Fantod Press, 1990 The Doleful Domesticity; Another Novel, Fantod Press, 1991 The Retrieved Locket, Fantod Press, 1994 The Unknown Vegetable, Fantod Press, 1995 The Just Dessert: Thoughtful Alphabet XI, Fantod Press, 1997 Deadly Blotter: Thoughtful Alphabet XVII, Fantod Press, 1997 The Haunted Tea-Cosy: A Dispirited and Distasteful Diversion for Christmas, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1998 The Headless Bust: A Melancholy Meditation on the False Millennium, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1999

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