Woody Allen
SELF-PORTRAIT: BOOK PEOPLE PICTURE THEMSELVES from the collection of Burt Britton. Random House 1975. From the February 10, 1975 issue of The New Yorker. “…Still another Strand-hound is Burt Britton, who presides over the review copies at the Strand. He once ran the door at the Village Vanguard where he asked the performers and known people in the audience to draw themselves on napkins. When he got his job at Strand, he asked writers and illustrators to do the same in a sketchbook. He now has almost 2 sketchbooks which Random House will publish as a book. Britton says it’s the only original thing he's ever done.” The book collects over seven hundred self portraits by novelists, poets, children's book authors, critics, artists and illustrators. Here are some examples.
