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"Portrait B," Howard Cook

David Levine on writers: Joseph Conrad

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: Winston Groom

Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates.

Forrest Gump

Winston Groom

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on July 9

Barbara Cartland  (1901)
June Jordan  (1936)

Dean Koontz  (1945)
Matthew Lewis  (1775)

Samuel Eliot Morison  (1887)
Ann Radcliffe  (1764)

Oliver Sacks  (1933)

 

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