But Harry Houdini was the only illusionist to set a ... scouring books on Houdini’s life and investigating letters and diaries in private collections. Jon Becker, who has spent more than 10 ...

Magician John Henry Anderson died in 1874, the same year Harry Houdini was born - yet despite the two never meeting, Anderson ...

Library of Congress Jack London and Harry Houdini were two of the most remarkable ... comes from brief entries in Charmian’s diaries. They saw each other over several weeks early in 1918 while ...