The Biblio File: images of bookplates, for bibliophiles

David Levine on writers: Octavio Paz

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

First Lines: Cornelia Funke

All was still in the valley of the dragons.

Dragon Rider

Cornelia Funke

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on August 29

Karen Hesse  (1952)

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.  (1809)

Mieko Kawakami  (1976)
Maurice Maeterlinck  (1862)
Preston Sturges  (1898)

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