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Possible Futures, New Haven, Connecticut

David Levine on writers: Jean de La Fontaine

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: Saul Bellow

What made me take this trip to Africa? There is no quick explanation. Things got worse and worse and worse and pretty soon they were too complicated.

Henderson the Rain King

Saul Bellow

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on June 21

Anne Carson  (1950)

Ian Frazier  (1951)
Mary McCarthy  (1912)

Ian McEwan  (1948)

Jean-Paul Sartre  (1905)

Henry S. Taylor  (1942)
Adam Zagajewski  (1945)
 

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