Published in 2013
112 pages
Samantha Hahn is a New York based illustrator and author working with a range of clients including: the Paris Review, New York Magazine/TheCut, J.Crew, Vogue Japan, Conde Nast Traveler, Random House, Assouline, Abrams and Chronicle Books. She is the author of A Mother is a Story: A Celebration of Motherhood (2016) and Well-Read Women: Portraits of Fiction’s Most Beloved Heroines.
What is this book about?
A treasure of a gift for the well-read woman, this collection brings together 50 stirring portraits, in watercolour and in word, of literature’s most well-read female characters. Anna Karenina, Clarissa Dalloway, Daisy Buchanan…each seems to live on the page through celebrated artist Samantha Hahn’s evocative portraits and hand-lettered quotations, with the pairing of art and text capturing all the spirit of the character as she was originally written.
