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Forrest Leo

Biography

Forrest Leo

Forrest Leo was born in 1990 on a homestead in remote Alaska, where he grew up without running water and took a dogsled to school. He holds a BFA in drama from New York University, and has worked as a carpenter, and a photographer and in a cubicle.

Forrest Leo

Books by Forrest Leo

by Forrest Leo - Literary Fiction

When Lionel Savage, a popular poet in Victorian London, learns that he’s broke, he marries the beautiful Vivien Lancaster for her money, only to find that his muse has abandoned him. Distraught, Savage accidentally conjures the Devil --- the polite “Gentleman” of the title --- who appears at one of the society parties Savage abhors. The two hit it off: the Devil talks about his home, where he employs Dante as a gardener; Savage lends him a volume of Tennyson. But when the party’s over and Vivien has disappeared, the poet concludes in horror that he must have inadvertently sold his wife to the dark lord. Newly in love with Vivian, Savage plans a rescue mission to Hell. Lionel and his friends encounter trapdoors, duels, the social pressure of not knowing enough about art history and the poisonous wit of his poetical archenemy. Fresh, action-packed and very, very funny.