At long last, Oscar Wilde, Frédéric Chopin, El Greco, Gertrude Stein and thirty other composers, painters, poets, and performers have been accorded the ultimate in immortality. Using fact as a mere stepping stone, Howard Moss and Edward Gorey have created a series of elegant, erudite, and perfectly hilarious life-sketches that make Instant Lives a satiric landmark in the annals of biography.