Rick Gekoski

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Richard Abraham ("Rick") Gekoski (born August 25, 1944 in St. Louis ) is a British writer , publisher and dealer of rare books.

Life

Rick Gekoski grew up in Alexandria ( Virginia on), where his father Bernard as a lawyer worked as a social worker and his mother Edith. In 1954 , his family moved to Huntington . Rick Gekoski went by the year 1962 at the Huntington High School and then studied at the University of Pennsylvania , which he in 1966 with the title Bachelor graduated. He then moved to England and received a PhD in English literature from the University of Oxford . Between 1971 and 1987 he taught English at the University of Warwick , where he was temporarily chairman of the Faculty of Arts .

From the mid-1980s, Rick Gekoski began trading rare English-language books. This includes first editions , manuscripts , archival material and works of art with a literary reference. Rick Gekoski is the author of several books dealing with his favorite subjects of soccer , rare books and reading. He founded two private printing companies, The Sixth Chamber Press and, together with TG Rosenthal, The Bridgewater Press . For the British radio station BBC Radio 4 , Rick Gekoski hosted a series on the subject of bookshops and rare books entitled Rare Books as guest commentator . Rare people . In 2005 he was a jury member for the Booker Prize .

Rick Gekowski is married to Belinda Kitchin. The couple have a daughter and a son.

Works

  • Joseph Conrad: The Moral World of the Novelist (1978)
  • William Golding: A Bibliography (with PA Grogan, 1994)
  • Staying Up: A Fan Behind the Scenes in the Premiership (1998)
  • Tolkien's Gown and Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books (2004)
    • One night with Lolita - encounters with people and books , slightly abridged edition (2006), unabridged edition (2008)
  • Outside of a Dog: A Bibliomemoir (2009)
  • Lost, Stolen or Shredded - Stories of Missing Works of Art and Literature (2013)
  • Darke. A novel . Canongate Books, 2017
  • A Long Island Story . Canongate Books, 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b see curriculum vitae in Eine Nacht mit Lolita , Claassen 2006, page 199
  2. ↑ About Rick Gekoski ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gekoski.co.uk
  3. ↑ About RA Gekoski Rare Books ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gekoski.co.uk
personal data
SURNAME Gekoski, Rick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gekoski, Richard Abraham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer, publisher and bookseller
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Louis