Celebrating Arno’s birthday this year is especially exciting. As mentioned here recently, his biography will be in bookstores this spring. Until then, here’s a newspaper clipping that nicely bullet points Arno in 1930, five years into his 43 year run at The New Yorker. He was twenty-six at the time, and fast becoming a star, not just in the pages
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Peter Arno Biography Cover Revealed!
You may have noticed on this site an occasional mention of the Peter Arno biography I’ve been working on for the past 15 years. If so, you’ll understand that this is one of those light-at-the-end-of-the-publishing-tunnel moments: the reveal of the cover. The manuscript is now in the galley phase; the book itself will be showing up in your local bookstores
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