Happy 80th, Edward Koren! (New Yorker cartoonist: "Well, There's Your Problem," 1980)

[leno...@yahoo.com]

He lives in Brookfield, Vermont.

Besides his work for the New Yorker (and about a dozen books of his own), he's illustrated three books by Delia Ephron (one for kids, two are aimed at teens), plus books by Alice Trillin, Peter Mayle and George Plimpton.

Incredibly, I can't find ANYTHING about today's birthday!

http://www.edwardkoren.com/
(his site)

http://www.pippinproperties.com/authors-illustrators/edward-koren/

Excerpt:

"...His illustrated books include How to Eat Like a Child, Teenage Romance and Do I Have to Say Hello (all by Delia Ephron), A Dog's Life by Peter Mayle, and, most recently, Pet Peeves by George Plimpton. Edward has published six collections of cartoons which first appeared in The New Yorker. His most recent book of cartoons is The Hard Work of Simple Living (Chelsea Green Publishing Company).

"Edward has written and illustrated two books for children, Behind the Wheel and Very Hairy Harry. He has also illustrated Thelonius Monster's Sky-High Fly Pie by Judy Sierra, Oops! by Alan Katz, How to Clean Your Room in Ten Easy Steps by Jennifer LaRue Huget, and the newly published Poems I Wrote When No One Was Looking by Alan Katz..."

http://biography.jrank.org/pages/108/Koren-Edward-Benjamin-1935-Sidelights.html
(a lot more about his work - strangely, the bibliography is far from complete)

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3432700048.html
(this MAY have the titles of all the books he illustrated)

https://www.google.com/search?q=edward+koren&biw=1280&bih=862&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj3vta5x9nJAhWJ9R4KHaPyBbgQ_AUIBigB#tbm=isch&q=edward+koren+books
(book covers)

http://www.edwardkoren.com/runners-world-interview/
(interview from 2005?)

http://www.edwardkoren.com/interviews/
(12:15 minute interview from 2011)

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/ed-koren-arrives
(about his 50th anniversary at The New Yorker)

http://www.tcj.com/the-beastly-beatitudes-of-edward-koren/
(LONG interview from 2013 - plus Koren's work as a firefighter)

http://www.cartoonstudies.org/index.php/2014/02/03/edward_koren_cartoonist_laureate/
(from 2014)

First paragraph:

"Brookfield, Vermont resident Edward Koren will become Vermont's second cartoonist laureate on Thursday, February 27, 2014, when he will be recognized on the State House floor. Vermont is the only state that regularly appoints a cartoonist laureate..."

(snip)

I found this, from November:

"Take a Quiz from Delia Ephron's New Manners Book (illustrated by Koren in 1989)

"Nora Ephron's sister just rereleased her book of children's etiquette. See how you fare on the quiz excerpt.

"Delia Ephron, noted expert on children's manners (such as they are), returns with a handy soccer etiquette quiz in Do I Have to Say Hello? Aunt Delia's Manners Quiz for Kids and Their Grownups, reissued last week by Blue Rider Press. If you find yourself choosing the third answer more often than not, seek professional help."

http://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/news/a4217/delia-ephron-manners-book/

(In one old review of that book, the critic pointed out that Ephron clearly sympathized with children's complaint about having to be polite - that adults never notice when kids are working hard to be polite; they only notice when the kids are not.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Koren

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=edward+koren&tbm=vid
(videos)


Writings

SELF-ILLUSTRATED

Don't Talk to Strange Bears, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1969.

Behind the Wheel, Holt, Rinehart & Winston (New York, NY), 1972.

Do You Want to Talk About It?, Pantheon Books (New York, NY), 1976.

Are You Happy? And Other Questions Lovers Ask, Pantheon Books (New York, NY), 1978.

"Well, There's Your Problem," Penguin (New York, NY), 1980.

The Penguin Edward Koren, Penguin (New York, NY), 1982.

Caution: Small Ensembles, Pantheon (New York, NY), 1983.

What about Me?: Cartoons from the New Yorker, Pantheon Books (New York, NY), 1989.

Quality Time: Parenting, Progeny, and Pets, Villard Books (New York, NY), 1995.

The Hard Work of Simple Living: A Somewhat Blank Book for the Sustainable Hedonist, Chelsea Green Publishing Company (White River Junction, VT), 1998.

Very Hairy Harry, Joanna Cotler Books (New York, NY), 2003.


ILLUSTRATOR

Delia Ephron, How to Eat Like a Child, and Other Lessons in Not Being a Grown-up, Viking (New York, NY), 1978.

Winifred Rosen, Dragons Hate to be Discreet, Knopf (New York, NY), 1978.

Delia Ephron, Teenage Romance, or How to Die of Embarrassment, Viking (New York, NY), 1981.

Burton Bernstein, Plane Crazy: A Celebration of Flying, Houghton Mifflin (New York, NY), 1985.

Bay Judson, Art Ventures: A Guide for Families to Ten Works of Art in the Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh, PA), 1987.

Delia Ephron, Do I Have to Say Hello?, Viking (New York, NY), 1989.

Peter Mayle, A Dog's Life, Knopf (New York, NY), 1995.

Alice Trillin, Dear Bruno, The New Press (New York, NY), 1996.

George Plimpton, Pet Peeves, or, Whatever Happened to Doctor Rawff?, Atlantic Monthly Press (New York, NY), 2000.

Mary-Lou Weisman, Traveling While Married, Algonquin Books (Chapel Hill, NC), 2003.


Lenona.