Happy 93rd, Edward Sorel!
A special shout-out to the one-and-only Ed Sorel on his 93rd birthday. Mr. Sorel’s latest book, Profusely Illustrated: A Memoir (Knopf) is receiving rave reviews.
Mr. Sorel’s Spill A-Z entry:
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Edward Sorel (self-portrait above from a strip appearing in The Nation following the death of Marlene Dietrich. Drawing used by permission of Mr. Sorel). Born March 26, 1929. New Yorker work: 1990 – . All of Mr. Sorel’s books are of great interest; Unauthorized Portraits (Alfred A. Knopf, 1997) is particularly essential. Website: edwardsorel.com
A Select Sorel Bibliography:
Moon Missing (Simon & Schuster, 1962
Superpen: The Cartoons And Caricatures Of Edward Sorel (Random House, 1978).
First Encounters, with Nancy Caldwell Sorel (Knopf, 1994)
Unauthorized Portraits (Knopf, 1997)
Literary Lives (Bloomsbury, 2004)
Just When You Thought Things Couldn’t Get Worse (Fantagraphics, 2007)
The Mural At The Waverly Inn (Pantheon, 2008)
Mary Astor’s Purple Diary, (Liveright, 2016)
A personal favorite Sorel cover, Esquire, April 1966:
