The Biblio File: images of cover art, for bibliophiles

David Levine on writers: Thomas Paine

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: Ernest Hemingway

In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains.

A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway

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

Milton Acorn  (1923)
 Jon Hassler  (1933) 
Sean O’Casey  (1880)
Anna Sewell  (1820)
Thomas Sharpe  (1928)
Paul Verlaine  (1844)
Gabriela Zapolska  (1857)
 

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Cat Yard Bookshop, Skowhegan, Maine