{"product_id":"9781101983232","title":"Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe acclaimed and unforgettable true story of offbeat intellect and pioneering paranormal investigator Charles Fort—in paperback for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is the seminal biography of one of the most fascinating and polarizing figures in all of Americana: Charles Fort (1874-1932), \"the mad genius of the Bronx,\" \"the \u003ci\u003eenfant terrible\u003c\/i\u003e of science,\" and the groundbreaking visionary who shaped our modern view of the paranormal. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheodore Dreiser called Fort \"the most fascinating literary figure since Poe.\" H.G. Wells called him \"one of the most damnable bores who ever cut scraps from out-of-the-way newspapers.\" No one was neutral about Charles Fort. Fort was a virtuoso at assembling records of bizarre, haunting, strange, and inexplicable anomalies for which science could not account. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike no other book, Jim Steinmeyer's brilliant and celebrated biography takes you down the rabbit hole and into the strange life of an outsider genius.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035317223664,"sku":"9781101983232","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101983232_p0.jpg?v=1763690394","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101983232","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}