100 Years: Wisdom from Famous Writers on Every Year of Your Life

This literary tapestry of the human experience will delight readers of all backgrounds. Moving year by year through the words of our most beloved authors, the great sequence of life reveals itself--the wonders and confinements of childhood, the emancipations and frustrations of adolescence, the empowerments and millstones of adulthood, the recognitions and resignations of old age. This trove of wisdom--featuring immortal passages from Arthur Rimbaud, Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, David Foster Wallace, William Shakespeare, Herman Melville, Jane Austen, and Maya Angelou, among many others--reminds us that the patterns of life transcend continents, cultures, and generations. As Thomas Mann wrote of our most shared human experience: "It will happen to me as to them." Designed by the legendary Milton Glaser, who created the I ♥ NY logo, 100 Years brings together color, type, and text to illuminate the ebb and flow of an entire life.

Author: Joshua Prager, Milton Glaser
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 05/03/2016
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.80w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780393285703

About the Author
Glaser, Milton: - Milton Glaser (1929--2020) was among the most celebrated graphic designers in the United States. In 2009, Mr. Glaser received the National Medal of the Arts from President Obama.Prager, Joshua: - Joshua Prager has written for the Atlantic, Vanity Fair, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. A former Nieman Fellow at Harvard, and Fulbright Distinguished Chair, he is the author of The Echoing Green (a Washington Post Best Book of the Year) and 100 Years (with Milton Glaser). He lives in New Jersey with his wife and two daughters.