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Edward Gorey Personal Library

Welcome fans of Edward Gorey to the Edward Gorey Personal Library page.

Exhibits

2025 Centenary Digital Gorey Exhibit in Progress. Stay tuned in 2025.

"Edward Gorey’s Collection of Lewis Carroll. An Exhibit for the Lewis Carroll Society of North America Spring Meeting 2019." Exhibit designed and installed by Linda Salem, EGPL Curator. Scripps Cottage. San Diego State University Library. San Diego, CA.  March 9, 2019. 

Salem, Linda. “Overview of research to date on the ABCs, Surrealism, True Crime, and Victorian Reference Works Found in the Edward Gorey Personal Library.”  Exhibit and Presentation for event tour at FUTURES! The 53rd Annual Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) Preconference, San Diego, Calif., June 2012.

Publications & Papers

Salem, Linda. “The Edward Gorey Personal Library. Evidencing Insights” in Clark, Dorothy and Salem, Linda, eds. Frontiers in American Children’s Literature. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2016. 

 

Salem, Linda. Review of Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey & Peter F. Neuemeyer, edited by Peter Neuemeyer.  Children's Literature Association Quarterly 37.2 (2012): 244-246. Project MUSE. Web. 13 Jul. 2012. <http://muse.jhu.edu/>. Editorial review.

 

Salem, Linda. “From the Golden Age to the American Imagination: Excavating Children’s Literature Illustration in the Edward Gorey Personal Library.” Paper presented at the American Literature Association 22nd Annual Conference, Boston, Mass., May 2011.

 

Salem, Linda. Invited lecture. “The Edward Gorey Personal Library.” October 19, 2014.  Comic Fest. Town & Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, Calif.

Events for Illustrator Groups

"Edward Gorey for Illustrators: Emulating Edward Gorey."  Presentation, book exhibit, and still life drawing session based on Gorey illustrations. Presentation and session designed by Linda Salem for the  San Diego Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Schmooze in person event. 20 attendees. December 13, 2018.

Grants

University Grants Program Awardee, SDSU University Grants Program. 2011-2012. Curation support for the Edward Gorey Personal Library.