The Forgers by Bradford Morrow

November 2015

Personal Information:

Born April 8, 1951, in Baltimore, MD; Education: Graduated from Liceo Scientifico (with honors), 1968; University of Colorado, Boulder, B.A. (summa cum laude), 1973; graduate study at Yale University.. Addresses: Home: New York, NY. Office: Conjunctions, 21 E. 10th St., New York, NY 10003. Agent: Andrew Wylie, Wylie Aitken & Stone, Inc., 250 W. 57th St., 2106, New York, NY 10107.

Career:

Professional jazz musician and music teacher, 1970-74; rare book archivist in California, 1974-81, and in New York, 1981-82; Conjunctions (literary magazine), New York, NY, founding editor, 1981--; Bard College, fellow and professor of literature, 1990--. Has also taught at Princeton University, Brown University, and Columbia University.

Literary executor, the Kenneth Rexroth Trust, beginning 1982. Juror, Pennsylvania State Council on the Arts, 1986, and Open Voice awards, 1989. Poetry reader and lecturer at Brown University, Ohio State University, New York University, State University of New York, Buffalo, Books & Co., Dixon Place, Simon's Rock of Bard College, Temple University, Manhattan Theatre Club, University of Colorado, Rhode Island School of Design, and Shippensburg University.

website:  http://bradfordmorrow.com/

Novels:

• Come Sunday, 1988.
• The Almanac Branch, 1992.
• Trinity Fields, 1995.
• Giovanni's Gift, 1997.
• Ariel's Crossing (sequel to Trinity Fields), 2002.
• The Diviner's Tale, 2011.

The Forgers (Nov 2014)

Narrator Will and Adam Diehl have something in common: they are both forgers, able to produce and sell authentic-looking inscriptions of Arthur Conan Doyle and Henry James’ books. When Adam is found bludgeoned and missing his hands, Will is inevitably drawn into the murder investigation. The clues and horror mount until realization bursts upon the reader at the end. -- Nancy Russell for LibraryReads

Writings:

• (With Bernard Lafourcade) A Bibliography of the Writings of Wyndham Lewis, 1978.
• (With Seamus Cooney) A Bibliography of the Black Sparrow Press, 1981.
• A Conjunctions Reader,  1991.
• The Unquiet Country, 1997.
• Didn't Didn't Do It (picture book), illustrated by Gahan Wilson, 2007.
• The Uninnocent: Stories,, 2011.

Poems

• Passing from the Provinces, 1981.
• Posthumes (selected poems), 1982.
• Danae's Progress, 1982.
• The Preferences, 1983.
• After a Charme, 1984.
• A Bestiary (children's poems), illustrations by Joel Shapiro, Eric Fischl, Kiki Smith, Richard Tuttle, Louisa Chase, and Gregory Amenoff,

Title Read-alikes

1.	The Club Dumas  by Arturo Perez-Reverte   Reason:  Atmospheric and richly detailed, these intricately plotted suspense stories introduce bibliophiles with bad reputations -- a semi-reformed forger and an unscrupulous rare book dealer -- who get caught up in a series of sinister events, including blackmail, murder, and conspiracy. -- Gillian Speace
2.	The art forger  by Barbara Shapiro   Reason:  The art of forgery -- paintings in The Art Forger; literature in The Forgers -- is explored in these richly detailed, intricately plotted suspense stories. The Art Forger also includes elements of romance. -- Anthea Goffe
3.	The school of night by  Louis Bayard  Reason:  Reformed (but not necessarily repentant) forgers of valuable historic documents investigate crimes involving antiquarian artifacts in these richly detailed suspense stories. Atmospheric and compelling, both novels infuse the secretive, sometimes shadowy world of rare books with mystery and romance. -- Gillian Speace
4.	Unbecoming by  Rebecca Scherm  Reason:  Though The Forgers is set in the world of rare books, and Unbecoming in the broader arts and antiques world, both offer rich details of their respective fields. Each has a possibly unreliable narrator and are suspenseful, character-driven tales of crime and betrayal. -- Shauna Griffin

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