Saul Steinberg: A Biography (2012)

by Deirdre Bair

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Explores the life and career of graphic artist and The New Yorker magazine mainstay Saul Steinberg.

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The New York Times Notable Books of the Year (Nonfiction – 2012)

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2012

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Saul Steinberg

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Epigraph

I don't quite belong to the art, cartoon, or magazine world...
they just say "the hell with him". They feel that he who has wings should lay eggs.

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For Aldo L. Bartolotta (who never had a bad day)

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Saul Steinberg's Italian diploma in architecture stated clearly that he was "of the Hebrew Race", which meant he was forbidden to work in Milan in 1940.

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"I am the writer who draws."

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