Books By Donald Nelsen - Author

Indiana native Donald Nelsen has lived and worked in New York City for more than 50 years. In 1959 he was awarded a Fulbright grant to study painting in Paris, and upon his return to the United States he joined a design studio and began creating textile and wallpaper designs as well as painted wood carvings of everyday objects. Several of his oil paintings are on display at the Brooklyn Historical Society. American author and artist Edward Gorey (1925-2000) combined whimsy and dark humor in such illustrated books as The Haunted Tea-Cosy, The Hapless Child, and The Fatal Lozenge. His distinctive style, featuring characters in Victorian dress in surrealistic settings, achieved wide recognition with his opening-sequence animation for the PBS Mystery! series.