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Lovestruck Books and Cafe, Cambridge, Massachusetts

David Levine on writers: Alain Robbe-Grillet

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: Robert Louis Stevenson

I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the last time out of the door of my father's house.

Kidnapped

Robert Louis Stevenson

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on April 5

Robert Bloch  (1917)
Richard Eberhart  (1904)
Thomas Hobbes  (1588) 
Anthony Horowitz  (1956)

Caitlin Moran  (1975) 
Algernon Charles Swinburne  (1837)
Booker T. Washington  (1856)
 

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