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  1. Jul 20, 2015 · Joseph Ferdinand Gould did not graduate from Harvard in 1911. Instead, he had a breakdown. The Goulds had been strange for as long as anyone could remember, and Joe Gould was decidedly so.

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      Joe Gould’s Teeth. By Jill Lepore. July 20, 2015....

  2. Sep 3, 2016 · Eventually, he was reinstated at Harvard, got his degree and moved to New York City, where he bunked in flophouses, begged handouts for what he called the Joe Gould Fund and began telling everyone ...

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  4. Mitchell met Gould in 1942 and wrote the profile "Professor Sea Gull" on him for The New Yorker. The first part of Joe Gould's Secret is made up of this profile, covering the period from Gould's graduation from Harvard University in 1911, leading up to the writing of his "Oral History", said to be composed of 20,000 conversations and 9,000,000 ...

    • Joseph Mitchell
    • 1965
  5. May 16, 2016 · Mitchell first introduced Gould in 1942: He was a quirky, possibly mentally ill Harvard dropout who wandered the streets of Greenwich Village and Harlem filling pages and pages of dime-store ...

  6. May 16, 2016 · Mitchell first introduced Gould in 1942: He was a quirky, possibly mentally ill Harvard dropout who wandered the streets of Greenwich Village and Harlem filling pages and pages of dime-store ...

  7. Aug 17, 2007 · For three decades, Gould, a Harvard graduate from a distinguished New England family, had spent his days and nights wandering the bars and taverns of Greenwich Village, staying in flophouses,...

  8. Apr 4, 2000 · Gould’s diary, long forgotten in NYU’s Fales Collection, offers a rare glimpse of the bombastic, ragged five-foot-four Harvard graduate in his own words.

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