Influential American surrealist artist, writer, and editor Charles Henri Ford (1908-2002) was born in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, and grew up in Memphis and elsewhere in Tennessee, along with his mother and sister, Ruth, who went on to become a renowned film actress. In 1933 he published The Young and the Evil, a novel he wrote with Parker Tyler that was banned in England and America for its subversive content. He is better known, however, for his surrealist magazines: Blues, which he published from 1929 through 1930 while he was a teenager, and View, which ran from 1940 through 1947 and featured seminal works by up-and-coming artists of the time like Joseph Cornell, Allen Ginsberg, and Randall Jarrell. Ford's later collections of verse include Spare Parts (1966), Om Krishna (1978), and Secret Haiku (1982). Charles Henri Ford wrote: "To start off being a poet today you have to be young and full of illusions. To end up being a poet you have to have Another Job."