The Electric Pencil. Drawings from inside State Hospital NO.3

James Edward Deeds (19081987) was raised on a farm near Ozark, Missouri. From age 25, he spent the remainder of his life institutionalized. Deeds created his remarkable drawings while a resident of State Hospital Number 3 in Nevada, Missouri. Richard Goodman is the author of French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France, The Soul of Creative Writing, A New York Memoir and The Bicycle Diaries: One New Yorkers Journey Through 9/11. He has written for The New York Times, Creative Nonfiction, Harvard Review, River Teeth, Chautauqua, Vanity Fair, Ascent, French Review and Michigan Quarterly Review. He is an assistant professor of creative nonfiction writing at the University of New Orleans.