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Scope and Contents 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...