The Biblio File: images of readers, for bibliophiles

Karin Jurick

David Levine on writers: André Malraux

David Levine (1926-2009) was one of America’s most prominent illustrators during a career that spanned decades. No less an authority than Jules Feiffer described him as "the greatest caricaturist of the last half of the 20th century,” although Levine continued to work in the early years of this century as well. Levine’s subjects included himself (above) and people from many walks of life. Authors, scribes and scribblers were a big part of the mix, as these caricatures make clear.  

Lit Toons: Cartoons with a bookish bent

Macanudo

First Lines: Toni Morrison

They shoot the white girl first.

Paradise 

Toni Morrison

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on June 27

Lucille Clifton  (1936)
Teju Cole  (1975)

Anita Diamant  (1951)

Paul Laurence Dunbar  (1872)

James P. Hogan  (1941)
Helen Keller  (1880)

Alice McDermott  (1953)

 

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Rootstock Publishing

David Levine on writers: Iris Murdoch

David Levine (1926-2009) was one of America’s most prominent illustrators during a career that spanned decades. No less an authority than Jules Feiffer described him as "the greatest caricaturist of the last half of the 20th century,” although Levine continued to work in the early years of this century as well. Levine’s subjects included himself (above) and people from many walks of life. Authors, scribes and scribblers were a big part of the mix, as these caricatures make clear.  

Lit Toons: Cartoons with a bookish bent

Grant Snider

First Lines: Abraham Verghese

After eight months spent in the obscurity of our mother’s womb, my brother, Shiva, and I came into the world in the late afternoon of the twentieth of September in the year of grace 1954.

Cutting for Stone

Abraham Verghese

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on June 26

Pearl S. Buck  (1892)