THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright © 2015, 2016 by Jill Lepore

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto.

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A version of this story appeared in The New Yorker in 2015.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Lepore, Jill, [date] author.

Title: Joe Gould’s teeth / by Jill Lepore.

Description: First edition. | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. | “This is a Borzoi Book.”

Identifiers: LCCN 2015035728 | ISBN 9781101947586 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781101947593 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Gould, Joe, 1889–1957. | Oral history. |Savage, Augusta, 1892–1962. | Biography—Methodology. | New York (N.Y.)—Biography.

Classification: LCC CT9991.G6 L47 2016 | DDC 974.7/1092—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/​2015035728

eBook ISBN 9781101947593

Cover: The National Archives, London, England/Mary Evans

Cover design by Kelly Blair

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