Instant Lives

At long last, Oscar Wilde, Frédéric Chopin, El Greco, Gertrude Stein and thirty other composers, painters, poets, and performers have been accorded the ultimate in immortality.

Using fact as a mere stepping stone, Howard Moss and Edward Gorey have created a series of elegant, erudite, and perfectly hilarious life-sketches that make INSTANT LIVES a satiric landmark in the annals of biography.