HENRY DARGER (1892 – 1973)
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Mild-mannered Chicago janitor would slip into his alter-universe behind the safety of closed doors where he worked meticulously on his 15,145-page, illustrated, single-spaced fantasy manuscript The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion. Its discovery after his death makes him the undisputed king of the outsider art realm.