In this very special
appearance at the Writers' Center, the acclaimed cartoonist and writer,
Jules Feiffer will read from his most
recent work, By the Side of the Road, for older elementary students.
Although he is perhaps best known for his satirical and political cartoons, Feiffer is also an acclaimed novelist, playwright, and children's author. Feiffer began his creative career at the age of nineteen, ghostwriting a weekly detective feature. Two years later he was drafted into the army, where he turned to satirical cartooning to make sense of "the military, the Bomb, the Cold War, the hypocrisy of grown-ups" and the other issues suddenly prominent in his life. By the time he was thirty, Feiffer's cartoons were syndicated nationwide. He next turned his talents to fiction and drama. Over the varied course of his career, he has received many honors, including a Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award, an Obie, and two Outer Critics Circle Awards.
In recent years, inspired by his granddaughter, he has focused on creating children's literature — which he says connects him professionally "to a part of myself that I didn't know how to let out until I was sixty."
Admission: $10 ($20 for a family of up to four people)
The readings at the HVWC are made possible in part by grants from the Bydale Foundation and the Gannett Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts; and by Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government, corporations and individuals.