Paul Garon

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.[1]

Paul Garon
Born(1942-07-06)July 6, 1942
Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
DiedJuly 26, 2022(2022-07-26) (aged 80)
OccupationWriter

Born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of a doctor and a sociology graduate,[2] Garon settled in Chicago and was one of the founders of the Chicago Surrealist Group in the mid-1960s.[3]

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".[4] Amongst his other publications, Garon was the biographer of Peetie Wheatstraw.[5] 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.[2]

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. ISBN 978-0882863719
  • Woman With Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues, with Beth Garon, 1992. ISBN 978-0306804601
  • Blues and the Poetic Spirit, 2001. ISBN 978-0872863156
  • 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. ISBN 978-0941194297
  • The Devil's Son-In-Law: The Story of Peetie Wheatstraw and His Songs, 2003. ISBN 978-0882862668
  • Rana Mozelle: Surrealist Texts, 1978. ISBN 978-0941194051
  • The Charles H. Kerr Company Archives 1885–1985: A Century of Socialist and Labor Publishing, 1985. ISBN 978-0882861449
  • "White Blues," Race Traitor 4 (1995)[6]

References
  1. Prahlad, Anand (January 1, 2006). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore: G-P. Greenwood Press. p. 498. ISBN 9780313330377. Retrieved July 22, 2019 – via Google Books.
  2. Daniel Leon, "Paul Garon, 1942–2022", Les temps du blues, July 27, 2022. Retrieved July 28, 2022
  3. "Garon, Paul", The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism, Michael Richardson et al. (eds.), Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019
  4. Robert Palmer (1981). Deep Blues. Penguin Books. p. 19. ISBN 978-0-14-006223-6.
  5. Giles Oakley (1997). The Devil's Music. Da Capo Press. pp. 171/3. ISBN 978-0-306-80743-5.
  6. "RACE TRAITOR – White Blues". Racetraitor.org. Retrieved February 3, 2019.


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