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Whitefield Library, Whitefield, Maine

David Levine on writers: Ralph Waldo Emerson

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: Patrick Ness

There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.

The Knife of Never Letting Go

Patrick Ness

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on November 12

Roland Barthes  (1915)
Tracy Kidder  (1945) 
Wallace Shawn  (1943)

Katharine Weber  (1955)
Naomi Wolf  (1962)

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David Levine on writers: Antonia Fraser

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.