The Biblio File: images of bookplates, for bibliophiles

David Levine on writers: John O'Hara

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: Edith Wharton

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on March 7

Kōbō Abe  (1924)
 Rick Bass  (1958)
William Boyd  (1952)

Anna Burns  (1962)

Bret Easton Ellis  (1964)
Robert Harris  (1957)

E.L. James (1963) 
Dan Jacobson  (1929) 
Ewald Christian von Kleist  (1715)
Andrea Levy  (1956)
Alessandro Manzoni  (1785)
Georges Perec  (1936)

The Biblio File: images of bookmarks, for bibliophiles

And you read your Emily Dickinson
And I my Robert Frost
And we note our place with book markers
That measure what we've lost