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Syracuse University Press

David Levine on writers: Peter Matthiessen

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: Thomas Hardy

When Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, extending upon his countenance like the rays in a rudimentary sketch of the rising sun.

Far from the Madding Crowd

Thomas Hardy

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

Diana Abu-Jaber  (1959)
John Berger  91926)
Will Durant  (1885)
Thomas Flanagan  (1923)
Uzodinma Iweala  (1982)

Joyce Maynard  (1953) 

Sam Shepard  (1943)
Vandana Shiva  (1952)
Geoffrey Wolff  (1937)

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Scoville Memorial Library, Salisbury, Connecticut

David Levine on writers: Rose Tremain

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.