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Moore Free Library, Newfane, Vermont

David Levine on writers: Agatha Christie

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

Mutts

First Lines: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

For my 90th birthday I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of mad love with an adolescent virgin.

A Memoir of My Sad Whores 

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on July 28

John Ashbery  (1927)
Natalie Babbitt  (1932)
Shirley Ann Grau  (1929)

Gerard Manley Hopkins  (1844)
 Malcolm Lowry  (1909)

Beatrix Potter  (1866)
William T. Vollmann  (1959)

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