Gene Markey: Heywood Broun's Blight

Sportswriter, columnist, and Algonquin Round Table diner Heywood Broun is the subject of a published caricature by Gene Markey. The drawing is dated 1922, and it was collected in Markey's book Literary Lights: A Book of Caricatures the following year. Harvard graduate Broun is here shown working at his desk, quill pen in hand. He is writing unfavorable book reviews, or "blighting an entire crop of spring novels" as the caption reads. Meanwhile his son, Heywood Hale Broun (his nightshirt is monogrammed H2), is being reared happily on Aeschylus. Not bad for a four year old.

Gene Markey, Heywood Broun, blighting an entire crop of spring novels.
From Literary Lights:  A Book of Caricatures, Alfred A. Knopf, 1923.

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Heywood Broun shuffling papers.  Note the name of fellow Algonquin Round Table member Deems Taylor on the poster.

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Gene Markey, Heywood Broun, blighting an entire crop of spring novels.
From Literary Lights:  A Book of Caricatures, Alfred A. Knopf, 1923.

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Gene Markey: Three New York Dramatic Critics

In 1923, Gene Markey caricatured three well-known New York drama critics, two of whom regularly sat at the Algonquin Round Table. The critics are Robert Benchley, Percy Hammond, and Alexander Woollcott. Hammond, here at center, is the one who does not dine at the Algonquin round Table. Come 1925, Alexander Woollcott would become an advisory editor to the fledgling New Yorker.

Gene Markey, Three New York Dramatic Critics
Robert C. Benchley, Percy Hammond and Alexander Woollcott
From Literary Lights:  A Book of Caricatures, Alfred A. Knopf, 1923.

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Gene Markey, Three New York Dramatic Critics
Robert C. Benchley, Percy Hammond and Alexander Woollcott
From Literary Lights:  A Book of Caricatures, Alfred A. Knopf, 1923.

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