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Wellfleet Public Library, Wellfleet, Massachusetts

David Levine on writers: Stephen Crane

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: Anthony Burgess

“What’s it going to be then, eh?”

A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on October 21

Samuel Taylor Coleridge  (1772)
Donald Finkel  (1929)
Carrie Fisher  (1956)
Patrick Kavanagh  (1904) 
Ursula Le Guin  (1929)
David Treuer  (1970)
  

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David Levine on writers: Marilynne Robinson

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.