The Biblio File: images of readers, for bibliophiles

Gari Melchers

David Levine on writers: Franz Kafka

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: Leo Tolstoy

Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist - I really believe he is Antichrist - I will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my "faithful slave," as you call yourself! But how do you do? I see I have frightened you - sit down and tell me all the news.

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

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

Gunter Grass  (1927) 
Thomas Lynch  (1948)

Eugene O’Neill  (1888) 
Noah Webster  (1758)

Oscar Wilde  (1854)
Kathleen Winsor  (1919)

The Biblio File: images of publishers, for bibliophiles

David Levine on writers: Ezra Pound

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.