Henry Darger
Henry Joseph Darger Jr. was an American writer, novelist and artist who worked as a hospital custodian in Chicago, Illinois. He has become famous for his posthumously recovered 15,145-page manuscript for a fantasy novel titled The Story of the Vivian Girls, along with several hundred drawings and watercolor illustrations for the story and two further works of literature.
12 April 1892
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Born in the same month (April 1892): Arthur Harris • Claire Windsor • Edith Södergran • Eugene Houdry • Freddie Dixon • Germaine Tailleferre • Howard Mumford Jones • Italo Mus • Juan Belmonte • Julius Hirsch • Lowell Thomas • Mary Pickford • Maud Hart Lovelace • Richard Neutra • Theo Osterkamp • Vernon Johns