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Leominster Public Library, Leominster, Massachusetts

David Levine on writers: Dorothy Thompson

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: Jacob Grimm

Once upon a time there was a dear little girl who was loved by everyone who looked at her, but most of all by her grandmother, and there was nothing that she would not have given to the child. Once she gave her a little cap of red velvet, which suited her so well that she would never wear anything else. So she was always called Little Red Riding Hood.

Little Red Riding Hood

Jacob Grimm

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on September 1

Edgar Rice Burroughs  (1875)

Annie Ernaux  (1940)

Eleanor Hibbert  (1906)

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