THE WALRUS SAID . . . . . . . . . being a bookish blog

Friday, April 24, 2026

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: Samuel Pepys

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

Tom Gauld

First Lines: Herman Melville


Call me Ishmael.

Moby Dick
Herman Melville

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on April 24



Eric Bogosian  (1953)
Elizabeth Goudge  (1900)
Sue Grafton  (1940)
Karan Mahajan  (1984)
David Morrell  (1943) 
Gabriel Okara  (1921)
George Oppen  (1908)
Carl Spitteler  (1845) 
Anthony Trollope  (1815)