Not much is known about Janet Halverson, who designed the book covers for titans of the 20th century literary scene: She was born in Maine in 1926; spent her youth in New Haven; worked in New York ...

At first controversial, ‘The Yellow Book’ method caught on, and by the early 20th century book cover design was an established art form. Two versions of the Yellow Book Wikimedia.

Book Review. Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel. By Edwin Frank Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 480 pages, $33 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a ...

Min Jin Lee’s Indelible Twentieth-Century Women The “Pachinko” author recommends four novels that present character studies of bold women making their way in changing times. February 19, 2025 ...

As the publishing industry matured and ballooned in the 20th century, the trends flew thick and fast: the painted pulp covers of the 1940s and ’50s, the ascension of photography in the 1960s ...

In the very early years of the twentieth century, the New York-born painter Emily Noyes Vanderpoel published an intriguing book on color: Color Problems: A Practical Manual for the Lay Student of ...