Garrets and Pretenders where his lectures drew huge

where his lectures drew huge crowds)

design treasury

which won him an international reputation as a concert artist

accompanied by rare photographs and engravings

books on insects

Garrets and Pretenders where his lectures drew hugeHailed as "thoroughly fascinating" and "an excellent account" by The New York Times, this chronicle recaptures the vibrantly eccentric lifestyles of generations of free spirited Americans. Its evocative profiles range from Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, and Ambrose Bierce to lesser known nonconformists and iconoclasts. Hoboes, starving poets, suffragettes, and artists' models populate these pages, forming a bustling panoply of banquets, suicides, and