The Biblio File: images of readers, for bibliophiles

"Wisdom," Tamara de Lempicka

David Levine on writers: Günter Grass

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: Virginia Woolf

He—for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it—was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters.

Orlando

Virginia Woolf

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on October 23

Laurie Halse Anderson  (1961)
Robert Bridges  (1844)
Augusten Burroughs  (1965)

Michael Crichton  (1942)

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Pen & Sword Books

David Levine on writers: Mordecai Richler

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.