Walter B. Gibson and The Shadow
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-2361-3 (ISBN)
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Walter B. Gibson's life and career come out from behind The Shadow in this biography. It covers his youth in Philadelphia, his development as a writer and magician, his wives, including the third, (Litzka, who was a harpist and magician in her own right), his time living in Maine and upstate New York, and his later years and death.
In addition to being credited with creating The Shadow (he used the pseudonym Maxwell Grant), Gibson wrote 187 books, contributed 668 articles to periodicals, created 283 stories for The Shadow Magazine, wrote 48 separate syndicated feature columns, reported the adventures of The Shadow and Blackstone the magician in 394 comic books and newspaper strips, and helped develop 147 radio scripts and many other works under numerous pseudonyms. Gibson has invented many widely used magic tricks and traveled with and befriended Harry Houdini, Howard Thurston, Harry Blackstone, Sr., and Joseph Dunninger.
Magician–performer Thomas J. Shimeld lives in Morganton, North Carolina.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
1. Setting the Scene of an Extraordinary Life
2. The Magical Years of Youth
3. Shaping the Future
4. Howard Thurston
5. Harry Houdini’s Final Escape
6. Casting the Shadow
7. Who Knows the Shadow?
8. Shadows of the Shadow
9. Harry Blackstone, Sr.—Lighting the Floating Bulb of Friendship
10. Psychic Phenomena and Mental Magic
11. Litzka Raymond Gibson—A Uniting Force of Magic
12. A Fading Shadow
Afterword
Appendix I: Alfred Gibson’s Account of the Lincoln Conspiracy Trials
Appendix II: Gibson Diary Extract, 1919
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 24.8.2005 |
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Zusatzinfo | photos, appendices, notes, bibliography, index |
Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
Gewicht | 358 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7864-2361-7 / 0786423617 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7864-2361-3 / 9780786423613 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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