The Amazing Harry Kellar

Great American Magician

• Author(s): Gail Jarrow,
• Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
• Pages: 96
• ISBN_10: 1629791709
  ISBN_13: 9781629791708
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Performing Arts , Juvenile Nonfiction / History / United States / 19th Century , Juvenile Nonfiction / Performing Arts / Circus ,

Description:... Presenting the amazing Harry Kellar: the first magician to receive international fame and the model for the Wizard of Oz!

In this illustrated biography of the most well-known illusionist at the turn of the twentieth century, Author Gail Jarrow follows Kellar from a magician's assistant traveling and performing across the United States during the Civil War to an international superstar with a show of his own, entertaining emperors, kings, and presidents.

Jarrow uses Kellar's own words and images—his amazing four-color promotional posters—to tell his riveting story in this first Kellar biography for young readers. And she reveals the science behind Kellar's illusions and explores nineteenth-century entertainment and transportation as well as the history of magic, spiritualism, and séances.