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CONNECTIONS
Each signature may be linked to the others by up to 53 thematic connections. Some are common to many signatures; others highlight unusual, yet notable, associations and interests. Friendships are not represented because so many signers were friends. Go to "The Bohemians" to view and interact with all 53 connections.
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THE DOOR
About a dozen signatures on the bookshop door represent cartoonists, many of whom made a name for themselves publishing their work in New York newspapers and magazines like the New York Herald, New York World, New Yorker, and Masses. Some, such as C. A. Voight and Gene Carr, created comic strips that ran weekly in Sunday newspaper editions. Other cartoonists, notably C. R. Macauley and Orson Lowell, drew editorial cartoons that satirized various aspects of contemporary life, from presidential politics to local Greenwich Village personalities.
William Gropper's dust jacket for John Farrar's The Literary Spotlight (New York: George H. Duran, 1924)
The writers represented on the cover are: Top: Don Marquis, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Heywood Broun, Edna Ferber, Henry Seidel Canby; Middle: Amy Lowell Sherwood Anderson, James Branch Cabell; Bottom: Booth Tarkington, Mary Austin, Sinclair Lewis, William Rose Benét, John Farrar, Fannie Hurst.