Biography

Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Woodstock, NY, WoodstockArts, 2nd, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and black and white pictures throughout.

Hardcover. US, Prestel USA, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards. Color and black and white pictures throughout. Developed in close collaboration with the artist, this vivid book captures the movement and pace of Charles Atlas's celebrated and highly collaborative time-based art. Looking back at a career that has spanned four decades, this beautiful volume profiles over 75 projects by Charles Atlas-including works recently exhibited at Tate Modern and the 2012 Whitney Biennial. As one of the first artists to explore the possibilities of video as a genre of expression, and especially through his long-lasting collaboration with Merce Cunningham, Atlas has teamed with numerous dancers and artists to create projects that range from feature-length documentaries to shorter media works, transforming the way performance is viewed by its audiences and the art world. In this inventive publication, Atlas's own commentary accompanies exquisite images that capture the structure and flow of his work in film, video, dance, and performance. The volume also includes interviews between Atlas and a number of writers and collaborators who have played a critical role in the development and reception of his oeuvre, as well as an array of fascinating ephemera from the artist's personal archives.

Hardcover. New York, Flatiron Books, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white photographs throughout. A tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, C.W.F. Scott, 1st, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 147 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Moderate soil and chipping to dust jacket, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Multiple page corners "dog-eared" folded and creased.

Hardcover. New York, DialBooks, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 340 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY STEVEN KELLOGG WITH ILLUSTRATION ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Dust jacket shows light rubbing. Cover boards show light edgewear, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Sloane Associates, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 315 pages, b&w illustrations by Mauldin. In a lightly worn dust jacket, stated First Printing on copyright page. Clean. The famous cartoon/journalist's take on post-war life for ex-GIs.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, The Winchell Co., 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 297 pages, b&w illustrations, in a bright dust jacket. Clean. Helene Iswolsky, daughter of a Russian diplomat, grew up in Japan, Denmark, Russia, and France. In 1911, her father became Russian ambassador to France. She returned to Russia for her debut in 1914, to be presented to the Tsarina Alexandra. While there she attended the wedding of Prince Felix Yusupov, who was to murder Rasputin three years later. After the Tsar was overthrown, her father retired to Biarritz and died there in 1919, leaving unpaid debts. The author took up translating and writing. She had a religious awakening and became a Catholic. A sojourn in a Benedictine monastery left her changed, but she decided not to make the cloister her life. The author knew many notable people in the Paris area, especially writers, poets, critics, philosophers of the "new wave," Christian humanists, and Russian emigres. She attended the Sunday afternoon gatherings of Jacques Maritain and Nicholas Berdiaev, and worked on Emmanuel Mounier's journal "Esprit." When the Nazis occupied France, she escaped to America with her mother. Here she founded an ecumenical movement called "The Third Hour" and taught Russian at Fordham University and other schools. She was a close friend of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement. Scarce.

Hardcover. Chamberlain Bros., 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Presents a biography of the cross-dressing performer who was a friend and collaborator of Andy Warhol that incorporates a time line, collected interviews, and selections from Jackie Curtis' writings.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 396 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to covers and dust jacket.

Hardcover. Baltimore, MD, James Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 443 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with little to no wear to edges.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martins Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 208 pages, b&w photos. Here is his vivid and surprising story: his tough childhood in New York; his early jobs as boxing instructor, basketball coach, and filing clerk; his lifelong (and very expensive) addition to gambling; his heart attack; and many others. Clean.

Softcover. London/NY, Verso, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 403 pages, b&w illustrations. In this new edition of his memoirs, Tariq Ali revisits his formative years as a young radical. It is a story that takes us from Paris and Prague to Hanoi and Bolivia, encountering along the way Malcolm X, Bertrand Russell, Marlon Brando, Henry Kissinger, and Mick Jagger. Ali captures the mood and energy of those years as he tracks the growing significance of the nascent protest movement. This edition includes a new introduction, as well as the famous interview conducted by Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn with John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1971. Clean.

Softcover. Santa Monica CA, Gitta Rosenzweig , 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 421 pages, illustrated with b&w, color photographs. A self-published memoir chronicling her family's past during the Holocaust. The author was raised in a Catholic orphanage in Poland, later immigrated to America and later returned to trace her parent's history. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Oklahoma Heritage Assn., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 324 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY CO-AUTHOR THOMPSON on the title page.Bryce Harlow was one of the most extraordinary political figures in the United States in the second half of the 20th century. He served four presidents with great honor and distinction. His word was his bond. With his gentle manner and Oklahoma drawl, Harlow advised Presidents on more public issues than perhaps anyone in American history.Dr. Henry Kissinger says Harlow spent his entire adult life studying the ways of Washington, D.C., alternating between participant and observer. Harlow had a deep sense for the Presidency, its power, its majesty, and the awful responsibility it imposes. Clean, unread copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 393 pages plus a 16 page index. With eight pages of illustrations and a frontispiece. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Pais turns his attention to the great physicist's life outside of science, with an informal, almost kalaidoscopic portrait of Einstein--his personal life and his public persona ("my mythical namesake who has made my life so burdensome"), his scientific contributions, and his thoughts on religion, philosophy, and politics, on Israel and Zionism, on the rise of Nazism and McCarthyism, and on much more. Pais offers a candid look at Einstein's troubled personal life--his two failed marriages, his first child Lieserl, who was born out of wedlock (and of whom all trace has vanished), his estranged son Hans Albert, also a scientist, who felt his father had abandoned the family, and his son Eduard, who gradually descended into madness. Of course, any book on Einstein must touch upon science, and Pais includes several illuminating chapters, one of which offers general readers an accessible explanation of relativity, and another traces the long road to Einstein's Nobel Prize (after being nominated almost every year from 1909 to 1920, he finally won in 1921--not for relativity, but for his work on the photoelectric effect). On the lighter side, Pais includes samples from Einstein's "curiosity file," in which he kept crank letters, marriage proposals, hate mail (one began "You are the prince of idiocy, the count of imbecility, the duke of cretinism, the baron of morons"), and the like. But the heart of the book is the final section, where Pais traces Einstein's lifeas seen through the media. Here we not only meet Einstein the living legend--receiving the keys to New York City from flamboyant Mayor Jimmy Walker, attending the Hollywood premier of City Lights with Charlie Chaplin--but also witness his extensive involvement in the issues of his day.

London, John Murray, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 229 pages illustrated in b&w by Victor Ambrus. The early (1914-34) and very readable Kenya memoirs of an administration official. Seaton presents his own particular vision of East Africa as it was from 1913 to 1926, the unsophisticated Africa with its peoples and wild life, before the golden age came to an end. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. West Kennebunk ME, Phoenix Publishing, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. an extraordinary memoir of Maurice that recounts the strange turns and fateful encounters that led him from his newsboyhood to collaborate with some of the world's most important men and to cooperate with some of it's most determined dreamers. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pbk proof, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 420 pages. Publishers uncorrected proof with flyer promoting the title laid in. The first major biography of the great jazz pianist and singer, written with the full cooperation of his family. When he died in 1965, at age forty-five, Nat King Cole was already a musical legend. As famous as Frank Sinatra, he had sold more records than anyone but Bing Crosby. Written with the narrative pacing of a novel, this absorbing biography traces Cole's rise to fame, from boy-wonder jazz genius to megastar in a racist society. Daniel Mark Epstein brings Cole and his times to vivid life: his precocious entrance onto the vibrant jazz scene of his hometown, Chicago; the creation of his trio and their rise to fame; the crossover success of such songs as "Straighten Up and Fly Right"; and his years as a pop singer and television star, the first African American to have his own show.Epstein examines Cole's insistence on changing society through his art rather than political activism, the romantic love story of Cole and Maria Ellington, and Cole's famous and influential image of calm, poise, and elegance, which concealed the personal turmoil and anxiety that undermined his health.

Softcover. NY, Carroll & Graf, Softcover, 500 pages. A twentieth-century photographer, artist, writer and designer for more than fifty years, Cecil Beaton was at the center of the worlds of fashion, society, theater and film. This book brings together for the first time the never-before-published diaries from 1970 to 1980 and, unlike the six slim volumes of diaries published during his lifetime, these have been left uniquely unedited. Hugo Vickers, the executor of Beaton's estate and the author of his acclaimed biography, has added extensive notes that are as lively as the diary entries themselves. Here is the photographer for British and American Vogue, designer of the sets and costumes for the play and film My Fair Lady and the film Gigi, with a cast of characters from many worlds, at shooting parties in the English countryside, on yachts, at garden parties at Buckingham Palace, at costume balls in Venice, Paris or London. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly soiled. unclipped dust jacket. 325 pages including index. The author explores Sunday's career as the product and expression of his era. A lively account of the famous revivalist's life and the inner workings of mass revivalism. Name stamp on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 134 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color photographs throughout. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 364 pages, in a bright dust jacket. Henry Petroski has been called 'the poet laureate of technology.' He is one of the most eloquent and inquisitive science and engineering writers of our time, illuminating with new clarity such familiar objects as pencils, books, and bridges. In Paperboy, he turns his intellectual curiosity inward, on his own past. Petroski grew up in the Cambria Heights section of New York City's borough of Queens during the 1950s, in the midst of a close and loving family. Educated at local Catholic schools, he worked as a delivery boy for the Long Island Press. The job taught him lessons about diligence, labor, commitment, and community-mindedness, lessons that this successful student could not learn at school. From his vantage point as a professor, engineer, and writer, Petroski reflects fondly on these lessons, and on his near-idyllic boyhood.

Hardcover. UK, Sutton, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 243 pages, 16 pages of b&w photos. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Bristol UK, Thoemmes, reprint , 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 488 pages. VOLUME 1 ONLY of a two volume set. Originally published in 1876. Name on front fly leaf, light pencil marking to about 25 pages.

Hardcover. UK, Routledge/Thoemmes, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 260 pages, b&w illustrations. A reprint of the 1949 edition with a new introduction by David Berman. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Hanover NH, University Press of New England, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 362 pages. This is the first full-scale biography of Nathan Smith -- medical pioneer, founder of Dartmouth Medical School and cofounder of three other medical schools (Yale, Vermont, and Bowdoin), and progenitor of a long line of physicians. Smith was a central figure in early American medical education, from 1787 when he began practicing in New Hampshire, to his death in New Haven in 1829. In his day, Smith was probably the nation's leading physician, surgeon, and medical educator, and well ahead of his time in insisting that doctors practice "watchful waiting" and emphasizing patient-centered care. In the process of telling Smith's life and story, authors Hayward and Putnam fill out in new ways the picture of medical treatment and medical education in post-Colonial America.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, slate gray boards. Paper label on spine, 64 pages with b&w plates. Walter James Dodd (1869 -1916) was a physician and one of the first radiologists in the United States. He was an early innovator in the use of X-rays in medicine, and suffered the consequences. He underwent over 50 surgical procedures to treat X-ray damage to his skin and had several appendages amputated. He ultimately died from X-ray induced cancer. Related clippings laid in. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Dunne Books, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 270 pages, b&w illustrations. Augustus Owsley Stanley III, better known by his nickname, Bear, was one of the most iconic figures in the cultural revolution that changed both America and the world during the 1960s.Owsley's high-octane rocket fuel enabled Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters to put on the Acid Tests. It also powered much of what happened on stage at Monterey Pop. Owsley turned on Pete Townshend of The Who and Jimi Hendrix. The shipment of LSD that Owsley sent John Lennon resulted in The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour album and film.Convinced that the Grateful Dead were destined to become the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band, Owsley provided the money that kept them going during their early days. As their longtime soundman, he then faithfully recorded many of the Dead's greatest live performances and designed the massive space-age system that came to be known as the Wall of Sound.Award-winning author and biographer Robert Greenfield's definitive biography of this Grateful Dead legend masterfully takes us through Owsley's incredible life and times to bring us a full picture of this fascinating man for the first time. The definitive biography of the reclusive and mysterious Grateful Dead benefactor and renowned LSD chemist without whom the counterculture would never have been born. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, John Wiley & Sons, 1st pbk, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover,452 pages, b&w illustrations. Harlow Unger's Lafayette is a remarkable and dramatic account of a life as fully lived as it is possible to imagine, that of Gilbert de Motier, marquis de Lafayette. To American readers Unger's biography will provide a stark reminder of just how near run a thing was our War of Independence and the degree to which our forefathers' victory hinged on the help of our French allies, marshaled for George Washington by his 'adopted' son, Lafayette. But even more absorbing and much less well known to the general reader will be Unger's account of Lafayette's idealistic but naive efforts to plant the fruits of the American democracy he so admired in the unreceptive soil of his homeland. Short inscription to half-title page, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Encounter Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 222 pages. Clean, unmarked copy. Black and white pictures in center. Goodyear was an entrepreneur who actually made good on the ever-popular claim that his company would change the world. Korman, senior editor of Engineering News-Record, dryly traces the life of the rubber pioneer and American industrial legend in this part scientific history lesson and part American business story. Goodyear (1800-1860) became an inventor not out of any great scientific thirst; he was self-taught and wanted to make money. He earned success, but endured continual patent monopoly battles and numerous trips to debtors' prison as he steadfastly and compulsively held onto his dream of using rubber to change just about every aspect of life. (According to Korman, Goodyear frequently wore a coat made of rubber in his early inventing days to underscore the versatility of his product.) Korman waxes scientific at times, offering in-depth descriptions of how Goodyear cooked rubber and sulfur compounds, yet his technical discourses are not so esoteric that they will turn away amateurs. His book is also valuable for its accurate portrayal of factory life in the 1830s and '40s; his accounts of the aproned men who chopped rubber with axes and knives and the machines that ground it are lively examples of industrial age America. Clean copy.

Softcover. Somerville MA, Cervena Barva Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 284 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Clean copy.

Softcover. Rootstock Publishing, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 316 pages, b&w illustrations. Circle of Sawdust is a uniquely personal story of the wild characters, fascinating personalities, remarkable histories, and behind-the-scenes world of traditional traveling circuses. Here is a true-life tale about a boy's impulse to run off and join the circus and then-through doubt, failure, loss, and tragedy-pursue the implausible vision of starting his own circus! With humor and passion, founder of Circus Smirkus Rob Mermin writes about the precarious life of a creative artist, the ups and downs of taking risks, and the idealistic struggle to hold onto a dream. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Appleton, 1st, 1920, Book: Good, 336 pages, hardcover with no dust jacket. Green cloth covers with black lettering. Minor wear, clean copy.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 376 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. George Sand was the most famous and most scandalous woman in nineteenth-century France. As a writer, she was enormously prolific. She wrote more than ninety novels, thirty-five plays, and thousands of pages of autobiography. She inspired writers as diverse as Flaubert and Proust but is often remembered for her love affairs with such figures as Musset and Chopin. Her affair with Chopin is the most notorious: their nine-year relationship ended in 1847 when Sand began to suspect that the composer had fallen in love with her daughter, Solange.

Hardcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1st, 1984-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 316 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear and rubbing o dust jacket. Small stain to fore edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to edges. Color and black & white images throughout. Tight copy.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1st, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 293 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Red cloth with gilt titles. Covers worn with rubbing/fraying on edges, spine faded. Internally very good.

Hardcover. New York, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., 1st US, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 319 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on preliminary pages. 16 pages of black & white illustrations. Foxing to top edge. Dust jacket with chipping along edges.

Hardcover. London, Bell and Daldy, 1st, 1864, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 452 pages. Red cloth covers with embossed graphic border and gilt titles to spine. Light rubbing to covers, slight wear to cover edges and corners, front cover and backstrip of spine separated from page block, though page block still attached to rear cover.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with paper label on front and spine. 286 pages. B&w frontispiece and illustrations by Warren Chappell. Minor edgewear to cover and age staining to endpapers. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1903, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 372 pages, with illustrations, gilt top edge and faded gilt title on spine, gold cloth bound. Light spine edge fray and corner bumps, minor rubbing, light tape repair to front fly leaf with previous owner's bookplate. Overall, internally clean, bright and tight copy.

Hardcover. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, First Edition, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 419 pages. Hardcover with photographs, illustrations of woodcuts, engravings in bw. Brown cloth boards & black titles to spine. Light marginal foxing to top edge. Dust jacket with toning to spine & light wear to edges. Clean & tight copy.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 267 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Very clean inside and out. From the front flap: "This stimulating book is the first comprehensive examination of Picasso's political commitment, his motivations to join the French Communist Party, and his contributions as an active member. Guertje R. Utley assesses the impact Communism had on the artist's life and explores how Picasso's political beliefs and the doctrines of the Communist Party affected his artistic production."

Hardcover. New York , Crown, 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 354 pages, color & black and white plates. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Traces the development of the painter's art and the course of his life, discussing his earliest memories, Sinn Fein uprisings in Ireland, World War I, Paris of the surrealists, and England during World War II.

Softcover. Robin May, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 378 pages. Softcover. Pages clean. Binding good. Wrapper very good. In very good condition. The magic of May's journey portrayed in these pages will answer so may of our questions about the paranormal, while assuaging many of our fears about death and that which comes after.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue boards with blue cloth spine. Tipped in frontis by Leon Underwood. Light edgewear, rubbing to cover label, spine label mostly gone, stamp on front fly leaf. 150 pages. At the age of 12, Woodward (1896-1961) had begun working in a London factory, and just one year later she had left home to take up another factory job making collars for men's shirts. Later she took positions as a receptionist and a freelance journalist, and allied herself with various socialist, suffrage, and free-thought groups. Jipping Street is "a graphic and absorbing account of growing-up in a London slum in the late 19th and early 20th centuries... [it is] a psychic reconstruction of childhood rather than a chronological narrative".

Hardcover. NY, Nan A. Talese, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 440 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The legendary cartoonist's candid, self-deprecating, and beautifully written memoir describes his childhood in the Bronx, evolution from "smart-ass kid into an enraged satirist" (with inspiration from a stint in the Army) and his later successes as a pioneer of the graphic novel and a collaborator with the likes of film greats Robert Altman, Mike Nichols and Jack Nicholson. SIGNED by Feiffer on title page.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. A glimpse inside the mind and artistic process of a fascinating contemporary cartoonist. Born to working-class parents in a small town in Italy, and reared in Chicago, Ivan Brunetti (b. 1967) was drawn to cartoons and comic strips from an early age. Finding inspiration in Spider-Man and Peanuts, he began crafting his own stories and gradually developed a unique style that he applied to imaginative, sometimes shocking subjects. The dark humor of his graphic novels earned him a cult following, yet his illustrations have had broad appeal. Now recognized as an award-winning cartoonist and illustrator, Brunetti has published his work in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and McSweeney's, among others.