Some creative writers are architects, some are illustrators. Others are literarians. E Landon Hobgood is a symphonist. This, the author's sixth work of fiction is like its predecessors and life, in turns sequential, reflective, existential and speculative. The story takes place in Greenwhich Village and is much bildungsroman as verisimilitude as drama. The narrative peopled by a diverse group of 1960's hipsters, is filled with philosophy, history, music, sex, iconoclasm, humor and original thought. But, when all is said and done , " Mona Lisa Was a Man" is an intensely sensual love recital.