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== Early Life ==

== Early Life ==

Flato was born in New York on May 27, 1908 to David A. and Hilda (Firot) Flato. He suffered from polio as a child and as a result was deformed, standing only a little over three feet in height and left with a hunchback forcing him to walk with a cane.<ref>[http://www.ioba.org/newsletter/archive/8(4)/reference2.php ''Books About Bookselling: A Backward Look'']</ref> His younger brother Jerome (1918-1981) served in the United States Navy during World War II.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Charles_Flato Relative's statement, Charles Flato was not a hunchbacked dwarf, January 17, 2006.]</ref>

Flato was born in New York on May 27, 1908 to David A. and Hilda (Firot) Flato. He suffered from [[polio]] as a child and as a result was deformed, standing only a little over three feet in height and left with a hunchback forcing him to walk with a cane.<ref>[http://www.ioba.org/newsletter/archive/8(4)/reference2.php ''Books About Bookselling: A Backward Look'']</ref> His younger brother Jerome (1918-1981) served in the United States Navy during World War II.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Charles_Flato Relative's statement, Charles Flato was not a hunchbacked dwarf, January 17, 2006.]</ref>

During the winter of 1932 he and homosexual author John Cheever rented Prescott Townsend's place in Provincetown, Massachusetts.<ref>''John Cheever: A Biography'', Scott Donaldson, 2002</ref> Flato wrote an article on [[Matthew Brady|Matthew Brady's]] Civil War photographs that was subsequently published in the Harvard University literary magazine Hound & Horn.<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2479/is_n4_v23/ai_18339989/print ''Afterimage'', "Scavenging the landscape: Walker Evans and American life," Melissa Rachleff, Jan-Feb 1996.]</ref> The article "Matthew B. Brady 1823-1896" was published in the October-December 1933 issue.<ref>''Afterimage'', "Scavenging the landscape: Walker Evans and American life," Melissa Rachleff, Jan-Feb 1996.</ref>One drawback to this article is that he credits Brady with all the Civil War photographs even though Brady often had others take the pictures for him.<ref>''Afterimage'', "Scavenging the landscape: Walker Evans and American life," Melissa Rachleff, Jan-Feb 1996.</ref> Flato also wrote poetry which was published in Hound & Horn and of which Yvor Winters called "rotten." Winters defined rotten saying, "it is nothing; it means nothing."<ref>''Studies in American Literature'', Volume 6, Mouton, 1966, page 175.</ref>

During the winter of 1932 he and homosexual author John Cheever rented Prescott Townsend's place in Provincetown, Massachusetts.<ref>''John Cheever: A Biography'', Scott Donaldson, 2002</ref> Flato wrote an article on [[Matthew Brady|Matthew Brady's]] Civil War photographs that was subsequently published in the Harvard University literary magazine Hound & Horn.<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2479/is_n4_v23/ai_18339989/print ''Afterimage'', "Scavenging the landscape: Walker Evans and American life," Melissa Rachleff, Jan-Feb 1996.]</ref> The article "Matthew B. Brady 1823-1896" was published in the October-December 1933 issue.<ref>''Afterimage'', "Scavenging the landscape: Walker Evans and American life," Melissa Rachleff, Jan-Feb 1996.</ref>One drawback to this article is that he credits Brady with all the Civil War photographs even though Brady often had others take the pictures for him.<ref>''Afterimage'', "Scavenging the landscape: Walker Evans and American life," Melissa Rachleff, Jan-Feb 1996.</ref> Flato also wrote poetry which was published in Hound & Horn and of which Yvor Winters called "rotten." Winters defined rotten saying, "it is nothing; it means nothing."<ref>''Studies in American Literature'', Volume 6, Mouton, 1966, page 175.</ref>

Flato died of kidney failure in Hyannis, Massachusetts, on January 1, 1984.<ref>Washington Post, Charles Flato Obituary, January 2, 1984.</ref> <ref>Chicago Tribune, Charles Flato Obituary, January 4, 1984.</ref> <ref>United States Social Security Death Index</ref>  

Flato died of kidney failure in Hyannis, Massachusetts, on January 1, 1984.<ref>Washington Post, Charles Flato Obituary, January 2, 1984.</ref> <ref>Chicago Tribune, Charles Flato Obituary, January 4, 1984.</ref> <ref>United States Social Security Death Index</ref>  

Two years after Flato's death, Francis M. O’Brien, gave a lecture at the Portland Public Library as part of the Anthoensen Press Lecture Series. He gave a colorful description of Flato saying that, ''"Flato, not much more than three feet in height, with a hunchback and crippled legs, was a colorful man with a beard, who wore a broad-brimmed black fedora and a black cloak and got around with the aid of a walking stick, with which he would whack people who got in his way. He had great wit, had written for the Hound and Horn, a leading quarterly of the time, and was an authority on Brady photographs."''<ref>''Books About Bookselling: A Backward Look''</ref>

Two years after Flato's death, Francis M. O’Brien, gave a lecture at the Portland Public Library as part of the Anthoensen Press Lecture Series. He gave a colorful description of Flato saying that, ''"Flato, not much more than three feet in height, with a hunchback and crippled legs, was a colorful man with a beard, who wore a broad-brimmed black fedora and a black [[cloak]] and got around with the aid of a walking stick, with which he would whack people who got in his way. He had great wit, had written for the Hound and Horn, a leading quarterly of the time, and was an authority on Brady photographs."''<ref>''Books About Bookselling: A Backward Look''</ref>

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