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Whitefield Library, Whitefield, Maine

David Levine on writers: Ralph Waldo Emerson

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: Patrick Ness

There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.

The Knife of Never Letting Go

Patrick Ness

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on November 12

Roland Barthes  (1915)
Tracy Kidder  (1945) 
Wallace Shawn  (1943)

Katharine Weber  (1955)
Naomi Wolf  (1962)

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David Levine on writers: Antonia Fraser

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: Franz Kafka

Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.

The Trial

Franz Kafka

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on November 11

Fyodor Dostoyevsky  (1821) 
Carlos Fuentes  (1928) 
Mary Gaitskill  (1954)

Min Jin Lee  (1968)
Naguib Mahfouz  (1911) 
Kurt Vonnegut  (1922)
 

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Carlson Turner Books & Bookbindery, Portland, Maine

David Levine on writers: Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Tom Gauld

First Lines: James Joyce

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

Ulysses

James Joyce

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on November 10

Neil Gaiman  (1960)
Oliver Goldsmith  (1728) 
W. E. B. Griffin  (1929)

Caroline Kepnes  (1976)
Vachel Lindsay  (1879)

John Marquand  (1893) 

Mark E. Neely, Jr.  (1944)

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David Levine on writers: T.S. Eliot

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: Marcel Proust

For a long time, I went to bed early.

Swann's Way

Marcel Proust

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on November 9

Imre Kertész  (1929) 
Hugh Leonard  (1926)

Carl Sagan  (1934) 

James Schuyler  (1923) 

Anne Sexton  (1928)