Author Description

Edward Gorey (American, 1925–2000), famous for masterful pen-and-ink cross-hatching and ironic, offbeat humor, won critical acclaim and an avid worldwide following. Children with baleful faces; anthropomorphic creatures of untraceable biological lineage; shadowy adults forever on the verge of mysterious errands: these are but a few of the irresistible characters who populate Gorey’s world. Gorey’s rise to popularity as master of the amusingly strange and unexpected was not immediate. He worked as a staff artist and art director at Doubleday and at the legendary Looking Glass Library at Random House. During his prolific career, Gorey produced more than one hundred works, published numerous illustrations in the New Yorker and the New York Times, and illustrated the works of many well-known authors, including Raymond Chandler, T.S. Eliot, Gilbert & Sullivan, Edward Lear, Bram Stoker, John Updike, and Virginia Woolf. All of Pomegranate’s calendars are printed with soy-based inks on FSC® certified paper, which means the paper has been certified by the Forest Stewardship Council® and manufactured by an FSC certified printer. FSC certification promotes responsible forest management by ensuring that forestry practices are environmentally responsible, socially equitable, and economically viable. FSC license code FSC N001864.