# Paul Garon

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{{Short description|American writer (1942–2022)}}
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'''Paul Arthur Garon''' (July 6, 1942 – July 26, 2022) was an American author, writer, and editor, noted for his meditations on [surrealist](/source/surrealist) works, and also a noted scholar on [blues](/source/blues) as a musical and cultural movement.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LqrWAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Paul+Garon%22 |title=The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore: G-P |first=Anand |last=Prahlad |publisher=[Greenwood Press](/source/Greenwood_Press) |isbn=9780313330377 |page=498 |date=January 1, 2006 |access-date=July 22, 2019 |via=Google Books}}</ref> 

Born in [Louisville, Kentucky](/source/Louisville%2C_Kentucky), the son of a doctor and a sociology graduate,<ref name=lestemps>[https://lestempsdublues.com/2022/07/27/paul-garon-1942-2022/ Daniel Leon, "Paul Garon, 1942–2022", ''Les temps du blues'',  July 27, 2022]. Retrieved July 28, 2022</ref> Garon settled in Chicago and was one of the founders of the [Chicago Surrealist Group](/source/Chicago_Surrealist_Group) in the mid-1960s.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=QTfWDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Paul+garon%22+1942&pg=RA1-PA315 "Garon, Paul", ''The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism'', Michael Richardson et al. (eds.), Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019]</ref>

Garon was one of the founding editors of ''[Living Blues](/source/Living_Blues)'' magazine in 1970.   He once wrote that "blues represents a fusion of music and poetry accomplished at a very high emotional temperature".<ref>{{cite book|title=Deep Blues|author=Robert Palmer|year=1981 |authorlink=Robert Palmer (American writer)|publisher=[Penguin Books](/source/Penguin_Books)|page=[https://archive.org/details/deepblues00palm/page/19 19]|isbn=978-0-14-006223-6|url=https://archive.org/details/deepblues00palm/page/19}}</ref> Amongst his other publications, Garon was the biographer of [Peetie Wheatstraw](/source/Peetie_Wheatstraw).<ref name="Devil">{{cite book|title=The Devil's Music|author=Giles Oakley|publisher=[Da Capo Press](/source/Da_Capo_Press)|pages=[https://archive.org/details/devilsmusichisto00oakl_0/page/171 171/3]|isbn=978-0-306-80743-5|date=1997|url=https://archive.org/details/devilsmusichisto00oakl_0/page/171}}</ref>  Later, Garon and his wife Beth operated Beasley Books together, a rare book business in Chicago. He was also a founding partner of the Chicago Rare Book Center, in [Evanston, Illinois](/source/Evanston%2C_Illinois).

Garon died on July 26, 2022, at the age of 80.<ref name=lestemps/>

==Works==
* ''What's the Use of Walking if There's A Freight Train Going Your Way? Black Hoboes and Their Songs.'' with [Gene Tomko](/source/Gene_Tomko), 2015. {{ISBN| 978-0882863719}}
* ''Woman With Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues'', with [Beth Garon](/source/Beth_Garon), 1992. {{ISBN|978-0306804601}}
* ''Blues and the Poetic Spirit'', 2001. {{ISBN|978-0872863156}}
* ''The Forecast Is Hot: Tracts & Other Collective Declarations of the Surrealist Movement in the United States 1966–1976'', with [Franklin Rosemont](/source/Franklin_Rosemont) and [Penelope Rosemont](/source/Penelope_Rosemont), 1997. {{ISBN|978-0941194297}}
* ''The Devil's Son-In-Law: The Story of Peetie Wheatstraw and His Songs'', 2003. {{ISBN|978-0882862668}}
* ''Rana Mozelle: Surrealist Texts'', 1978. {{ISBN| 978-0941194051}}
* ''The Charles H. Kerr Company Archives 1885–1985: A Century of Socialist and Labor Publishing'', 1985. {{ISBN|978-0882861449}}
* "White Blues," ''Race Traitor'' 4 (1995)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://racetraitor.org/blues.html|title=RACE TRAITOR – White Blues|website=Racetraitor.org|accessdate=February 3, 2019}}</ref>

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* [http://www.beasleybooks.com/?page=shop/index&CLSN_2090=128197545420903a90167f95e151aadf Beasley Books]
* {{discogs artist|Paul Garon}}

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