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Literary Lives
By Edward Sorel, introduction by E.L. Doctorow
Bloomsbury, 112 pages, $14.95
Significant moments in the lives of 10 authors–including Leo Tolstoy, Lillian Hellman and Marcel Proust–are highlighted by Edward Sorel in the form of his marvelous cartoons. Sorel’s brilliant illustrative satires focus on episodes of questionable judgment–Norman Mailer’s running for mayor of New York, for example, and W.B. Yeats’ attending a seance. As E.L. Doctorow writes in the introduction, “never have authors of such magnitude been so casually eviscerated.”