Hermit, 1949

Martin Lederhandler

Associated Press

When the world began to rock with rumbles of war in 1939, plump-cheeked Paul Makushak locked himself into a black, windowless cubicle in the attic of his Brooklyn home. He remained there ten years until police, acting upon a neighbor's tip, released him from his self-imposed confinement. A few days later, he pleaded to go back to his darkened room.

Martin Lederhandler, "Hermit, 1949," in POYi Archive, Item #580, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/580 (accessed November 22, 2024).