A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley

*An Amazon Best Book of the Month *A Barnes & Noble Booksellers' Pick *An NPR pick for 2013 *A Vanity Fair Hot Type pick *A Publishers Lunch Buzz Book 2013 *An iTunes/iBookstore Best Book of the Month *A Parade magazine 2013 Summer Read A Curious Man is the marvelously compelling biography of Robert “Believe It or Not” Ripley, the enigmatic cartoonist turned globetrotting millionaire who won international fame by celebrating the world's strangest oddities, and whose outrageous showmanship taught us to believe in the unbelievable.As portrayed by acclaimed biographer Neal Thompson, Ripley’s life is the stuff of a classic American fairy tale. Buck-toothed and cursed by shyness, Ripley turned his sense of being an outsider into an appreciation for the strangeness of the world.