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Manchester City Library, Manchester, New Hampshire

David Levine on writers: E.L. Doctorow

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: Samuel Butler

When I was a small boy at the beginning of the century I remember an old man who wore knee-breeches and worsted stockings, and who used to hobble about the street of our village with the help of a stick.  

The Way of All Flesh

Samuel Butler

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on June 16

John Howard Griffin  (1920)
Joyce Carol Oates  (1938)
Erich Segal  (1937

Andy Weir  (1972)

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