Jecon Gregory

Jecon Gregory is or was a nomadic artist, whose autobiographical fragments and poems, dictated to an acquaintance, were published as the book "History of a Nation of One: An Unlikely Memoir" (Harcourt Brace, New York, 1969, and Michael Joseph, London, 1971). [citation|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,901617-6,00.html|title=One Week: The Literary Overflow|journal=Time Magazine|date=October 24, 1969.] [citation|title=From a Walker's Notebook|journal=Los Angeles Times|last=Kirsh|first=Robert|date=October 28, 1969.] Jecon apparently did not know his place, date, language or even name of birth, began his wanderings as a child in Malta; walked through many lands, barefoot, tall and thin, pulling all his possessions in a basket on wheels, sleeping on the ground, and making a living by drawing portraits.

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