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The Secret World Inside Room 57: Henry Darger's Hidden Universe of 15,000 Pages
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The Secret World Inside Room 57: Henry Darger's Hidden Universe of 15,000 Pages

For decades, Henry Darger swept floors and vanished into Chicago's gray streets — invisible to almost everyone around him. But behind the locked door of his single-room apartment, he was building something almost impossible to believe. When his landlord finally stepped inside after Darger's death in 1973, the world discovered one of the most astonishing acts of private creation in American art history.