Paul Arthur Garon (July 6, 1942 – July 26, 2022) was an American author, writer, and editor, noted for his meditations on surrealist works, and also a noted scholar on blues as a musical and cultural movement.
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of a doctor and a sociology graduate,
[Daniel Leon, "Paul Garon, 1942–2022", ''Les temps du blues'', July 27, 2022]
Retrieved July 28, 2022 Garon settled in Chicago and was one of the founders of the Chicago Surrealist Group in the mid-1960s.
Garon was one of the founding editors of ''Living Blues'' magazine in 1970. He once wrote that "blues represents a fusion of music and poetry accomplished at a very high emotional temperature". Amongst his other publications, Garon was the biographer of Peetie Wheatstraw.
Later, Garon and his wife Beth operated Beasley Books together, a rare book business in Chicago. He was also a founding partner of the Chicago Rare Book Center, in Evanston, Illinois.
Garon died on July 26, 2022, at the age of 80.
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Works
* ''What's the Use of Walking if There's A Freight Train Going Your Way? Black Hoboes and Their Songs.'' with Gene Tomko, 2015.
* ''Woman With Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues'', with Beth Garon, 1992.
* ''Blues and the Poetic Spirit'', 2001.
* ''The Forecast Is Hot: Tracts & Other Collective Declarations of the Surrealist Movement in the United States 1966–1976'', with Franklin Rosemont and Penelope Rosemont, 1997.
* ''The Devil's Son-In-Law: The Story of Peetie Wheatstraw and His Songs'', 2003.
* ''Rana Mozelle: Surrealist Texts'', 1978.
* ''The Charles H. Kerr Company Archives 1885–1985: A Century of Socialist and Labor Publishing'', 1985.
* "White Blues," ''Race Traitor'' 4 (1995)
References
External links
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Beasley Books
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1942 births
2022 deaths
Writers from Louisville, Kentucky
American writers about music
American art critics
American book editors
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