The Biblio File: images of bookplates, for bibliophiles

David Levine on writers: Ursula Le Guin

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

Mutts

First Lines: Sylvia Plath

It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on July 25

Elias Canetti  (1905)
Midge Decter  (1927) 
David Madden  (1933)

George Peele  (1556)

Josephine Tey  (1896)

 

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