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New information about the mystery of Janet Halverson, book design icon, surfaces
Also in the Book Pages, Jenny Erpenbeck, the International Booker Prize winner, appears in Southern California.
It was a mystery.
That’s what we were left with when I last wrote about Janet Halverson, the creator of iconic book covers from the 1950s to the 1990s, including Joan Didion’s “Play It As It Lays,” Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and... [9360 chars]