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Avenue Victor Hugo Book Shop, Lee, New Hampshire

David Levine on writers: Alice Walker

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: Stephen Harrigan

They tore at the earth with their entrenching tools and mess-kit lids as the shells burst all around them and in the scattered pine tops overhead.

Remember Ben Clayton

Stephen Harrigan

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on August 16

Charles Bukowski  (1920)
Diana Wynne Jones  (1934)
Maurice Kenny  (1929)

Jillian Lauren  (1973)  

T. E. Lawrence  (1888)
Valeria Luiselli  (1983)

William Keepers Maxwell, Jr.  (1908)
Christopher Okigbo  (1932) 
Wallace Thurman  (1902)
 

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