![]() A brilliant talent-spotter he brought to Jonathan Cape an extraordinary range of talent such as John Lennon, Thomas Pynchon, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Roald Dahl, Philip Roth, Bruce Chatwin, Tom Wolfe, Ian McEwan and Martin Amis. Provenance: Tom Maschler, titan of British publishing and head of the Jonathan Cape publishing house. ![]() Lennon's second book, A Spaniard in the Works, was published the following year. It is also notable in being the first solo Beatle project in any form. In His Own Write, a collection of nonsensical, often surreal short stories and line drawings was published in March 1964 to great critical and commercial success. He immediately commissioned the "surprisingly willing" Beatle to write his first book. Maschler began to read, and laugh, the writing, he thought, was "extraordinarily witty". The author and illustrator was John Lennon. Braun later returned to Maschler with a set of drawings and writings scribbled on the back of hotel notepaper. In 1963, Tom Maschler, editorial director of John Cape, commissioned journalist Michael Braun to write a book on the contemporary British pop scene. The illustration of a British Policeman standing over the seated Sad Michael is reproduced from this drawing on page 34 of the first edition. ![]() Drawn by John Lennon to illustrate the chapter Sad Michael.
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