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BookStacks, Bucksport, Maine ("Lucky" the three-legged cat)

David Levine on writers: Eugene Ionesco

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: Cormac McCarthy

See the Child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire.

Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

Cormac McCarthy

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on September 7

Malcolm Bradbury  (1932)

Taylor Caldwell  (1900)

Jennifer Egan  (1962)
Joe Klein  (1946)
Margaret Landon  (1903)
Edith Sitwell  (1887)
 

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