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Arthur Cravan (born May 22, 1887, Lausanne, was last seen at Salina Cruz,
Mexico in 1918 and most likely drowned in the Pacific Ocean off the coast
of Mexico in November 1918). He was known as a pugilist, a poet, a
larger-than-life character, and an idol of the Dada and Surrealism
movements. His real name was Fabian Avenarius Lloyd, the second son of Otho
Holland Lloyd and Hélène Clara St. Clair. He had a brother, Otho, born
1885. His father's sister, Constance Mary Lloyd, was married to the Irish
poet Oscar Wilde. He changed his name to Cravan in 1912 in honour of his
fiancée Renée Bouchet, who was born in the small village of Cravans in the
department of Charente-Maritime in western France. Why he chose the name
Arthur remains unclear.
Biography He was born and educated in Lausanne, Switzerland, and
travelled widely throughout Europe and America during World War I using a
variety of passports and documents, some of them
