Begin Your Journey With Here Be Dragons Envisioned By Alfred Chester Accessible As Digital Format

Chester's first collection of short stories, which was published in a limited edition ofcopies,

The collection comprises of: The Head Of A Sad Angel A Dance For Dead Lovers Here Be Dragons, and Rapunzel, Rapunzel.
Alfred Chester was born on September,in Brooklyn, N, Y. , to a family of Jewish Russian immigrants, He received his B. A. at New York University inand completed some graduate study at Columbia University, In, he left for Paris as other bohemian expatriates had done before him, most notably, Gertrude Stein, While living in Parishe began his career as a serious writer, composing such works as the collection of short stories, Here Be Dragonsand his first novel, Jamie Is My Hearts Desire.
During this time, Chester also met and began a relationship with an Israeli pianist, Arthur, with whom he lived in Paris and, for a short time, in New York City.
While in Paris, Chester befriended other literary fig Alfred Chester was born on September,in Brooklyn, N, Y. , to a family of Jewish Russian immigrants, He received his B. A. at New York University inand completed some graduate study at Columbia University, In, he left for Paris as other bohemian expatriates had done before him, most notably, Gertrude Stein, While living in Parishe began

his career as a serious writer, composing such works as the collection of short stories, Here Be Dragonsand his first novel, Jamie Is My Heart's Desire.
During this time, Chester also met and began a relationship with an Israeli pianist, Arthur, with whom he lived in Paris and, for a short time, in New York City.
While in Paris, Chester befriended other literary figures, such as sitelink Susan Sontag, sitelink James Baldwin, and Princess sitelink Marguerite Caetani, Upon returning to New York City in, Chester enjoyed considerable success and fame throughout the's, and was very much a part of the avant garde literary scene, He continued to write essays and criticism for various magazines, and also published the works Behold Goliath, The Exquisite Corpse, and Head of a Sad Angel, During this time, however, Chester was afflicted with deteriorating health and psychological instability, and was as well a serious drug user and alcoholic, In, he sailed to Morocco on the advice of his friend sitelink Paul Bowles, and this marked the beginning of a series of erratic travels all over the world, On August,, in Israel, Alfred Chester died in obscurity by this time, he had become alienated from most of his friends and the literary circles of New York, sitelink.