The Biblio File: images of cover art, for bibliophiles

David Levine on writers: Ulysses S. Grant

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: Fyodor Dostoevsky

On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on June 1

John Masefield  (1878)
Colleen McCullough  (1937)

Sheri Holman  (1966)

The Biblio File: images of N.E. bookstores, for bibliophiles

Gulf of Maine Books, Brunswick, Maine