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Victoria Maxfield

Victoria Maxfield is an illustrator and a book-cover designer, She won a Clio shortlist award for her work on George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker for the New York City Ballet.

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Among All the Great Things Benjamin Franklin Invented or Discovered, His Alter Egos Gave Him the Most Freedom

Silence Dogood. Richard Saunders. Benevolus. Sidi Mehemet Ibrahim. All were pen names that allowed Franklin to say things he couldn’t have otherwise said