Paul Garon
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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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of a doctor and a sociology graduate,<ref name=lestemps>Daniel Leon, "Paul Garon, 1942–2022", Les temps du blues, July 27, 2022. Retrieved July 28, 2022</ref> Garon settled in Chicago and was one of the founders of the Chicago Surrealist Group in the mid-1960s.<ref>"Garon, Paul", The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism, Michael Richardson et al. (eds.), Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019</ref>
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".<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Amongst his other publications, Garon was the biographer of Peetie Wheatstraw.<ref name="Devil">Template:Cite book</ref> 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.<ref name=lestemps/>
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. Template:ISBN
- Woman With Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues, with Beth Garon, 1992. Template:ISBN
- Blues and the Poetic Spirit, 2001. Template:ISBN
- 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. Template:ISBN
- The Devil's Son-In-Law: The Story of Peetie Wheatstraw and His Songs, 2003. Template:ISBN
- Rana Mozelle: Surrealist Texts, 1978. Template:ISBN
- The Charles H. Kerr Company Archives 1885–1985: A Century of Socialist and Labor Publishing, 1985. Template:ISBN
- "White Blues," Race Traitor 4 (1995)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>