The Biblio File: images of bookplates, for bibliophiles

David Levine on writers: H.P. Lovecraft

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: Arthur Conan Doyle

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he stayed up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on February 21

W. H. Auden  (1907) 
Erma Bombeck  (1927)

Jonathan Safran Foer  (1977) 

Ha Jin  (1956) 

Anais Nin  (1903) 

Chuck Palahniuk  (1962) 

Jeffrey Shaara  (1952) 

David Foster Wallace  (1962)
José Zorilla  (1817)

 

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