ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Joshua David Bergey is a professional writer and artist who graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with Highest Honors from Oberlin College. The first to graduate with a degree in English and Interdisciplinary Performance/ Playwriting, Bergey pushed boundaries at Oberlin, helping the college to pioneer new curriculum that focuses on the intersection of writing, performance, and visual art.

Before pursuing his own writing career and narrative non-fiction at the graduate level, on talent scholarship, Bergey served seven years in higher education, most recently as a dean at a college of visual arts. He has traveled throughout East Asia, Europe, and the Balkans, performing with an absurdist theater troupe and leading an extensive series of essay-writing workshops.

He has considerable experience developing creative work in multiple genres—consulting as an editor of film, facilitating readings for a theater company in Chicago, and, at New York Stage & Film, helping to oversee staged performances and workshops of original scripts by acclaimed writers.

The youngest grandson of the late American artist, Earle K. Bergey, the enigmatic subject of this coming book, Joshua David Bergey alone knows the heartbreaking secrets and untold truth behind the ultimate pulp fiction and pin-up artist of the 20th century. He is the artist's only expert. He teaches and lectures in the field of 20th century American illustration art, and his expertise is sought by universities, colleges, galleries, and museums.