Literary Lives is a book of decidedly unauthorised biographies by the acclaimed caricaturist Edward Sorel, who has long believed, that next to composers, writers are the craziest people in the world. The ten writers he has used to prove this thesis are Norman Mailer, George Eliot, Marcel Proust, Jean-Paul Sartre, Lillian Hellman, Leo Tolstoy, Bertolt Brecht, William Butler Yeats, Carl Jung and Ayn Rand. Although these comic strips are clearly meant to amuse, and the facts uncovered are sometimes hard to believe, each and every statement is absolutely true.

Edward Sorel is a renowned caricaturist and his work appears regulalrly in New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, CondeNast Traveller and Atlantic Monthly. For fans of Edward Gorey, Sempe and Saul Steinberg There will be a tie-in exhibition to mark publication

About the Author
Edward Sorel is an internationally known caricaturist and satirist, whose drawings have been exhibited in galleries and museums in Europe and the United States. In 1998, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, exhibited their large collection of his caricatures. Sorel is a regular contributor to the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, and Vanity Fair. Born in the Bronx, he now lives in Harlem with his wife Nancy Caldwell Sorel.


Book Information
ISBN 9780747582878
Author Edward Sorel
Format Hardback
Page Count 112
Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC