# Doomed and Famous: Selected Obituaries - Hardcover

by **Adrian Dannatt** (Author), **Hugo Guinness** (Illustrator)

**An obituarist opens his archive to celebrate the obscure and the eccentric.**

In _Doomed and Famous_, an obituarist opens his archive in celebration of the most marginal and improbable characters, creating a meta-fiction of extinction and obscurity. For many decades Adrian Dannatt tracked and dredged the dead, with a macabre disregard for the etiquette of mortality. His specialty, much in demand among even the most mainstream publications, was to memorialize those whose eccentricity or criminality made them unlikely candidates for the fleeting immortality of a newspaper necrology. Dannatt maintained a veritable lust, perverse certainly, for capturing and celebrating such wayward existences. This book is a selection of some of the best--meaning most improbable--of these miniature biographies.

Here are arranged an almost fictive cast of characters including an imaginary Sephardic count in Wisconsin, a sadomasochist collector of the world's rarest clocks, a discrete Cuban connoisseur of invisibility, an alcoholic novelist in Rio, a Warhol Superstar gone wrong, a leading downtown Manhattan dominatrix, a conceptual artist who blew up a museum, and many others. Dannatt terminates this volume with his own putative extinction, performing the difficult if not dangerous task of penning his personal life history and ultimate end.  

### Author Biography

Adrian Dannatt is a writer, curator, editor and artist. His fiction and poetry has been published in anthologies including _Best British Short Stories_ and _PEN New Poetry_ and his books include the _U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum_, _Wim Delvoye_, and most recently _Les Lalanne: In the Domain of Dreams_.

**Number of Pages:** 320

**Dimensions:** 1.2 x 8.6 x 5.7 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** February 02, 2021

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