William Hofmann
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Books
The works he illustrated include:- The First Easter (1959) by Peter MarshallPeter Marshall (author)Peter Marshall is an English philosopher, historian, biographer, travel writer and poet. He has written fifteen books which are being translated into fourteen different languages. He wrote, presented and partly filmed the 6-part HTV series 'Voyage Around Africa', first shown in 1994...
- Five World Biographies (1961) edited by Leon EdelLeon EdelJoseph Leon Edel was a North American literary critic and biographer. He was the elder brother of North American philosopher Abraham Edel....
, Elizabeth S. White, Madolyn W. Brown - Four English Biographies Harcourt Brace & World, Inc, (1961) by J. B. PriestleyJ. B. PriestleyJohn Boynton Priestley, OM , known as J. B. Priestley, was an English novelist, playwright and broadcaster. He published 26 novels, notably The Good Companions , as well as numerous dramas such as An Inspector Calls...
, and O. B. Davis - The Blue of Capricorn (1962) by Eugene BurdickEugene BurdickEugene L. Burdick , was an American political scientist, novelist, and non-fiction writer, co-author of The Ugly American and Fail-Safe and author of The 480 ....
- Indian Uprising, Houghton Mifflin (1962) by George Cory Franklin
- The Last Portage: The Biography of a Man Caught Between Two Worlds of the Frontier—Born a White, Raised an Indian (1962) by Walter O'MearaWalter O'MearaWalter O’Meara was an American author born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.-Early life:O'Meara spent his childhood in Cloquet, Minnesota, graduating from Cloquet High School in 1914. O’Meara started his college education at the University of Minnesota before taking a leave of absence to serve in the US...
- Hero of Trafalgar: the Story of Lord Nelson (1963) by A.B.C. WhippleA.B.C. WhippleAddison Beecher Colvin Whipple is a historian and author who has written largely about oceanic subjects since the mid-1950s. He was an executive editor at Time-Life Books, and worked as a reporter for Life during the 1950s....
- Backtrack (western novel)Backtrack (western novel)Backtrack is a western novel by Milton Lott, published in 1965. The book is about a cattle drive from Texas to Montana, and features cowboy Ringo Rose and a Mexican boy whom he fathers. He teaches the kid skills he needs to survive, including gunfighting. When the kid shoots a man and flees,...
(1965) by Milton LottMilton LottMilton Lott was an author of western novels. He grew up in the Snake River Valley, in Idaho and attended University of California, Berkeley. While there he started writing his first published novel, The Last Hunt. He worked on the novel while attending an English class taught by George R.... - Time Was, Folkways Press (1965) by John Foster West
- Phaëthon (1966) by Merrill Pollack
- Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths (1966) by Bernard EvslinBernard EvslinBernard Evslin is an author best known for his adaptations of Greek mythology. With over seventy titles, which include both novel-length retellings and short stories, Evslin is one of the most widely published authors of classical mythology in the world...
- Poems to Remember, Macmillan Company (1967) by Dorothy Petitt. Trade Paperback.
Dust Jackets
He also illustrated the dust jackets of:- Kings Will Be TyrantsKings Will Be TyrantsKings Will Be Tyrants by Ward Hawkins is a 1959 novel about fighting in Cuba. Bernardo Manuel Patrick O'Brien is a former U.S. Marine who winds up fighting for Castro. Though a Marine, he has to deal with the conflict of his heritage, both Cuban and American.-External links:*...
(1959) by Ward HawkinsWard HawkinsWard Hawkins is an author, who wrote from the 1940s through the 1980s. His later works seem to have been science fiction, but earlier he wrote serial stories for the Saturday Evening Post in the 1940s and 1950s. He often wrote with his brother John Hawkins, and the University of Oregon has a... - The Last Portage: The Biography of a Man Caught Between Two Worlds of the Frontier—Born a White, Raised an Indian (1962) by Walter O'MearaWalter O'MearaWalter O’Meara was an American author born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.-Early life:O'Meara spent his childhood in Cloquet, Minnesota, graduating from Cloquet High School in 1914. O’Meara started his college education at the University of Minnesota before taking a leave of absence to serve in the US...
- The Levantines, Houghton Mifflin (1963) by Fausta Cialente, Isabel Quigly (trans.)
- BacktrackBacktrack (western novel)Backtrack is a western novel by Milton Lott, published in 1965. The book is about a cattle drive from Texas to Montana, and features cowboy Ringo Rose and a Mexican boy whom he fathers. He teaches the kid skills he needs to survive, including gunfighting. When the kid shoots a man and flees,...
(1965), by Milton LottMilton LottMilton Lott was an author of western novels. He grew up in the Snake River Valley, in Idaho and attended University of California, Berkeley. While there he started writing his first published novel, The Last Hunt. He worked on the novel while attending an English class taught by George R.... - The Mountbattens - The Last Royal Success Story, Random House (1965) by Alden HatchAlden R. HatchAlden R. Hatch was an American writer. He was the son of May D. Hatch and her husband Frederic H. Hatch, owner of a successful Wall Street stock brokerage firm he founded in 1888. Alden's brother, Eric S...
- AvalonAvalon (novel)Avalon is a novel, written by the American author Anya Seton. It was published in 1965.It is a fictional story about the lives of Saint Rumon and Merewyn, set against a broad historical background of Anglo-Saxon England and the Viking expansion to Iceland and Greenland.The book focuses on Rumon and...
, Hodder and Stoughton (1966) by Anya SetonAnya SetonAnya Seton was the pen name of Ann Seton, an American author of historical romances.-Biography:... - World in a Glass - A View of Our Century From the Novels of John Dos Passos, Houghton Mifflin (1966) by John Dos PassosJohn Dos PassosJohn Roderigo Dos Passos was an American novelist and artist.-Early life:Born in Chicago, Illinois, Dos Passos was the illegitimate son of John Randolph Dos Passos , a distinguished lawyer of Madeiran Portuguese descent, and Lucy Addison Sprigg Madison of Petersburg, Virginia. The elder Dos Passos...
- A Tract of TimeA Tract of TimeA Tract of Time is an antiwar novel from 1966 by Smith Hempstone, that covers the time period about 1960, when there was an attempted coup of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem. Even as the United States backed Diem's government during the war, its American advisers worked with the Montagnard...
(1966) by Smith HempstoneSmith HempstoneSmith Hempstone was a journalist, author, and the United States ambassador to Kenya in 1989–93. He was a vocal proponent of democracy, fighting for free elections in Kenya in 1991.-Biography:... - JubileeJubilee (novel)Jubilee is a historical novel written by Margaret Walker, which focuses on the story of a biracial slave during the American Civil War...
(1966) by Margaret WalkerMargaret WalkerMargaret Abigail Walker Alexander was an African-American poet and writer. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, she wrote as Margaret Walker. One of her best-known poems is For My People.-Biography:... - Earth AbidesEarth AbidesEarth Abides is a 1949 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by American writer George R. Stewart. It tells the story of the fall of civilization from deadly disease and its rebirth. Beginning in the United States in the 1940s, it deals with Isherwood "Ish" Williams, Emma, and the community they...
Houghton MifflinHoughton MifflinHoughton Mifflin Harcourt is an educational and trade publisher in the United States. Headquartered in Boston's Back Bay, it publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers and adults.-History:The company was...
(1969) by George R. StewartGeorge R. StewartGeorge Rippey Stewart was an American toponymist, a novelist, and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley... - Operation DestructOperation DestructOperation Destruct is a 1969 spy novel by Christopher Nicole written in the context of the Cold War and contests in international espionage between the West and the Soviet Union....
, Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1969) by Christopher NicoleChristopher NicoleChristopher Robin Nicole is a prolific British writer of over 200 novels and non-fiction books since 1957. He wrote as Christopher Nicole under several pseudonyms including Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C.R... - Logan's RunLogan's RunLogan's Run is a novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. Published in 1967, it depicts a dystopic ageist future society in which both population and the consumption of resources are maintained in equilibrium by requiring the death of everyone reaching a particular age...
, Dell paperback (1969) by William F. NolanWilliam F. NolanWilliam Francis Nolan is an American author, who wrote stories in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres. He is best known for coauthoring the novel Logan's Run, with George Clayton Johnson. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 1976 horror film Burnt Offerings which starred Karen Black and...
and George Clayton JohnsonGeorge Clayton JohnsonGeorge Clayton Johnson is an American science fiction writer most famous for co-writing the novel Logan's Run with William F. Nolan... - Where the Cavern Ends, Holt Rinehart & Winston (1970) by Christopher NicoleChristopher NicoleChristopher Robin Nicole is a prolific British writer of over 200 novels and non-fiction books since 1957. He wrote as Christopher Nicole under several pseudonyms including Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C.R...
(ISBN 9780030851155)