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David Levine on writers: Rudyard Kipling

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

Mutts

First Lines: Jean Rhys

They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.

Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on August 24

Max Beerbohm  (1872)
Jorge Luis Borges  (1899)

A. S. Byatt  (1936)

Orson Scott Card  (1951)

Paulo Coelho  (1947)

John Green  (1977)
Robert Herrick  (1591)

Oscar Hijuelos  (1951)

Alexander McCall Smith (1948)
Jean Rhys  (1890)
Howard Zinn  (1922)

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