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

David Levine on writers: Voltaire

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: Erich Segal

What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? That she was beautiful. And brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. And the Beatles. And me.

Love Story

Erich Segal

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on February 6

Tom Brokaw  (1940)
Victor Hernandez Cruz  (1954)

Deborah Digges  (1950) 
Ugo Foscolo  (1778)
Károly Kisfaludy  (1778)
Christopher Marlowe  (1564)

Michael Pollan  (1955)
Melvin Tolson  (1898)

 

The Biblio File: images of readers, for bibliophiles