This book is stored with other Steinberg books.Amazon.com review. My initial familiarity with Steinberg started with the purchase of a framed copy of "that poster" (View of the World from 9th Avenue) soon after he created it in 1976. Steinberg was known as "a writer who draws" and most of his pieces require extensive study to comprehend them fully. Perhaps 15 years later I became enamored with The New Yorker magazine and began to learn of its storied history. I've been a faithful subscriber and have absorbed several books ("About Town" by Ben Yagoda and personal reminiscences by staff members Brendan Gill, Lillian Ross, James Thurber and Renata Adler). Steinberg makes cameo appearances in all of those works - and for good reason. Steinberg designed 89 New Yorker covers over a six-decade span, earning Adam Gopnik's tribute that he was the greatest artist ever associated with the magazine, one known almost as much for its pictures as its prose.But as you would expect, Deirdre Bair's tome (700-plus pages, including more than 100 pages of footnotes) goes much deeper than Steinberg's interaction with hallowed editors Harold Ross and William Shawn. She spent about five years researching and writing it, gaining access to his personal papers from his foundation and interviewing scores of Steinberg's friends, including his wife of more than 50 years, Hedda Sterne, a decorated artist in her own right. Even though Saul and Hedda separated in 1960, they never divorced and had almost daily contact for the rest of his life. (Steinberg died in 1999.)Favorable reviews of this book in the New York Review of Books and the New Yorker piqued my interest. It took me nearly a month to digest its rich detail, but it was worth the time. Forty-seven bite-size chapters make it easy to read in segments.Steinberg's escape from Nazi-occupied Europe is movie material in itself. Steinberg's artistic talent is undeniable (he considered Pablo Picasso and himself to be the greatest artists of the 20th century). Furthermore, Steinberg had some fascinating habits - he was a notorious womanizer who juggled countless longstanding affairs and brief flings simultaneously, a generous bloke who supported dozens of relatives after he found his niche in America, a compulsive traveler both internationally and nationally whose antidote for creative block was to pick up and go -- anywhere, and a pack rat who immersed himself in regular visits to flea markets.Steinberg kept and documented everything, which amounts to a biographer's dream. He also fabricated stories for interviewers, a biographer's nightmare. How Steinberg earned, spent, shared and invested his money is detailed in a style an accountant would appreciate. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.