The Biblio File: images of bookplates, for bibliophiles

David Levine on writers: Vladimir Nabokov

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: Jim Grace

The hair is unmistakable: old-fashioned Russian hair, swept back from the forehead, thickly and unusually abundant.

All That Follows 

Jim Grace

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on February 7

Charles Dickens  (1812)

Karen Joy Fowler  (1950)

Sinclair Lewis  (1885) 
Frederik Paludan-Muller  (1809)

Gay Talese  (1932) 

Laura Ingalls Wilder  (1867)

 

The Biblio File: images of bookmarks, for bibliophiles

And you read your Emily Dickinson
And I my Robert Frost
And we note our place with book markers
That measure what we've lost