![]() In the early 1950s, Gorey, with a group of recent Harvard alumni including Alison Lurie (1947), John Ashbery (1949), Donald Hall (1951) and Frank O'Hara, amongst others, founded the Poets' Theatre in Cambridge, which was supported by Harvard faculty members John Ciardi and Thornton Wilder. ![]() ![]() He then attended Harvard University, beginning in 1946 and graduating in the class of 1950 he studied French and roomed with poet Frank O'Hara. He spent 1944 to 1946 in the Army at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. Gorey attended a variety of local grade schools and then the Francis W. John Garvey, was a popular nineteenth-century greeting card writer and artist, from whom he claimed to have inherited his talents. Gorey's maternal great-grandmother, Helen St. One of his stepmothers was Corinna Mura (1909–1965), a cabaret singer who had a small role in the classic film Casablanca as the woman playing the guitar while singing " La Marseillaise" at Rick's Café Américain. His parents, Helen Dunham (née Garvey) and Edward Lee Gorey, divorced in 1936 when he was 11, then remarried in 1952 when he was 27. ![]()
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