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David Levine on writers: John le Carré

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: J.M. Coetzee

For a man of his age, fifty-two, divorced, he has, to his mind, solved the problem of sex rather well.

Disgrace

J.M. Coetzee

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on September 29

Stan Berenstain  (1923) 
Miguel de Cervantes  (1547) 

Colin Dexter  (1930) 

Jon Fosse  (1959)

Elizabeth Gaskell  (1810)

Barbara Mertz  (1927)
  

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