Caricatures by world-renowned artist David Levine enriched and enlivened the pages of The New York Review of Books for almost five decades. Thirty-three of Levine’s most arresting and iconic caricatures of authors decorate this beautifully crafted lined notebook.  Each time you look at this notebook, you’ll find more to look at in the wonderfully detailed illustrations which express the wit, commentary, and virtuoso technique for which Levine’s caricatures received worldwide acclaim.

 Authors depicted are:

Zora Neale Hurston, William Shakespeare, James Joyce, Beatrix Potter, Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, Vladimir Nabokov, William Faulkner, James Baldwin, Emily Dickinson, Oscar Wilde, Colette, Anton Chekhov, Virginia Woolf, Voltaire, Rachel Carson, Samuel Beckett, Herman Melville, Langston Hughes, Flannery O'Connor, Truman Capote, Jane Austen, W. E. B. DuBois, M. F. K. Fisher, Victor Hugo, Gertrude Stein,  Alice B. Toklas, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, Marcel Proust, Dante, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Lewis Carroll.

Hardcover; 96 pages of 100gsm cream paper; Lined; 8.35 x 5.8 x .6 inches; Includes a ribbon marker. 

David Levine (1926-2009)

Born in Brooklyn, David Levine studied painting at Pratt Institute, at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and with Hans Hofmann. His work has been exhibited extensively in major galleries and museums throughout the world and has appeared in The New York Review since 1963. Among other publications in which his work has appeared are Esquire, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Sports Illustrated.