The Biblio File: images of bookplates, for bibliophiles

David Levine on writers: James Dickey

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

Grant Snider

First Lines: Philip Roth

She was so deeply imbedded in my consciousness that for the first year of school I seem to have believed that each of my teachers was my mother in disguise.

Portnoy’s Complaint

Philip Roth

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on July 11

Harold Bloom  (1930)
Jhumpa Lahiri  (1967)
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich  (1938)
Susan Warner  (1819)

E. B. White  (1899)

 

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