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 ...

Even if it is only 1998, millennial fever has hit this year’s crop of dazzling gift books.Several of the season’s best coffeetable books take an appraising look back at the 20th century ...

In the early decades of the 20th century, these covers were standalone paintings first, ... Broadway Virgin (1949), cover art by Wesley Snyder, book by Lois Bull, Diversey, ...

The Graphic Designer Behind The 20th Century’s Most Influential Book Covers Has Died. Paul Bacon did the covers for Catch-22, Portnoy’s Complaints, Jaws and some 6,500 other novels and books.

Declared the best novel of the 20th century by the Library Journal, ... Since the book's 1960 publication, ... 11 To Kill a Mockingbird Book Covers We'll Always Remember.

Judging book covers. 12:00 am, Nov 07, 2008. One shouldn’t judge a book by its cover — or should they? The current exhibit at the Whitney Humanities Center, “Book Jacket Design from the Yale ...

He will soon take a seat beside Joel Daly on the WLS 4 p.m. newscast to pitch “The Century,” a book he cowrote that covers America’s last 98 years in 600 engaging pages.

Yet its moral point of reference is inescapably the 20th century world. “The Lord of the Rings” is conventionally called fantasy, yet Tolkien in some ways considered it to be true, or at least ...

But in the late 20th-century, publishers started to mix it up, hiring design giants to lend their individual styles to the book covers of each new edition of his plays.

In short, virtually all the elements of 20th-century book jackets were present from relatively early on in their development, albeit without consistency or standardization.

In four sections, each offering short essays on slightly less than a minyan of books, Kirsch covers what we might call the Common Core version of 20th-century Jewish history: Europe, America ...