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Author and illustrator Maira Kalman talks about her life and work, from her covers for The New Yorker to her books for children and grown-ups. She is as wonderful, as wise and as deliciously off-kilter in person as she is on paper.

Author and illustrator Maira Kalman talks about her life and work, from her covers for The New Yorker to her books for children and grown-ups. She is as wonderful, as wise and as deliciously off-kilter in person as she is on paper.

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Maira Kalman's wise, witty drawings have appeared on numberless New Yorker covers, in a dozen children's books, and throughout the pages of the Elements of Style. Her latest book, The Principles of Uncertainty, is the result of a year-long illustrated blog she kept for the New York Times.

Maira Kalman | Puffin, 2003 | Book

What Pete Ate From A-Z

William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White | Illustrations by Maira Kalman Penguin Books, 2007 | Book

The Elements of Style

Michael Pollan | Illustrations by Maira Kalman Penguin Press, 2011 | Book

Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

Maira Kalman | Nancy Paulsen Books, 2012 | Book

Looking at Lincoln

Daniel Handler | Illustrations by Maira Kalman Little, Brown Books, 2013 | Book

Why We Broke Up

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