Hockney's Alphabet Author:David Hockney, Stephen Spender (Editor) Perhaps only a fundraising effort could bring together the stellar group of writers that participated in this book. David Hockney, who is one of the two or three most influential British artists of the later half of the 20th century, made a drawing to illustrate each letter of the alphabet. Famous writers from the U.K. and the United States cont... more »ributed definitions for the letters, like a children's ABC book, but with a more serious purpose -- to raise money to fight AIDS.
A fun and original ABC book, with illustrations by David Hockney and the definitions of the letters by twenty-six well-known writers (including winners of the Nobel Prize and the Pulitzer Prize).
Contributors include: David Hockney, Iris Murdock, Seamus Heaney, Douglas Adams, Susan Sontag, Joyce Carol, Oates John Updike, Norman Mailer, Ian McEwan. « less