FORD, Charles Henri
(*1909)
FORD, Charles Henri (10 February 1909). Born in Mississippi, in a year he had successfully kept unknown into his late 80s, Ford edited the first issues of the literary periodical Blues in Columbus, Mississippi, in 1929–30 before moving to Paris in the early thirties, in time to be noticed favorably in Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933). He subsequently collaborated with the film-critic-to-be Parker Tyler (1904–74) on Young and Evil (1933, in Paris), a pioneering…