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Mary Baker Eddy Library, Boston, Massachusetts

David Levine on writers: Cesare Pavese

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: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Unable to restrain myself, I have sat down to record this history of my first steps on life's career, though I could have done as well without it. One thing I know for certain: never again will I sit down to write my autobiography, even if I live to be a hundred. You have to be all too basely in love with yourself to write about yourself without shame. My only excuse is that I'm not writing for the same reason everyone else writes, that is, for the sake of the reader's praises.

The Adolescent

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on June 30

John Gay  (1685)
Dinaw Mengestu  (1978)

Czeslaw Milosz  (1911)
 José Emilio Pacheco  (1939)

 

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