It is well-known that C.S. Lewis appeared on the front cover of Time magazine in the 1940s. The specific issue date was that of 8 September 1947, and the artist was Boris Artzybasheff. See it at right.
Less-known is the fact that Lewis had appeared some three years earlier on the cover of The Saturday Review of Literature, accompanying a review (by Leonard Bacon) of the U.S. edition of Perelandra. The specific issue date was 8 April 1944, and the wood engraving for the cover was by Frances O'Brien Garfield. The artist was apparently given only a headshot of a rather weary-looking C.S. Lewis to use in making the cover. This headshot was apparently a publicity photo used by the U.S. publisher Macmillan, as it also appeared next to contemporary American reviews of some of Lewis's books.
Here's a close-up of the illustration itself, with the scan of Lewis's headshot below it for comparison.
How do we see the text of the Saturday Review by Mr. Bacon?
ReplyDeleteThe easiest way would be to find a library that holds a run of The Saturday Review from that period.
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