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Heartleaf Books, Providence, Rhode Island

David Levine on writers: J.M. Coetzee

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: Neil Gaiman

The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peaks a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.

The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on July 26

Janice Berenstain  (1923)

Aldous Huxley  (1894)

George Bernard Shaw  (1856)
Jean Shepherd  (1921) 
Lawrence Watt Evans  (1954)

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