Garrets and Pretenders which won him an international

which won him an international reputation as a concert artist

where his lectures drew huge crowds)

books on japanese arts

accompanied by rare photographs and engravings

books on insects

Garrets and Pretenders which won him an internationalHailed 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