# Draper Hill

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**Draper Hill** (1935 – May 13, 2009) was an American cartoonist and writer.[1]

He was educated at [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University) and from 1958 until 1964 he worked as a reporter and cartoonist for *[The Patriot Ledger](/source/The_Patriot_Ledger)*.[1] He was also the editorial cartoonist for the Memphis Commercial Appeal (1971 -1976) and the *[Detroit News](/source/The_Detroit_News)* (1976-1999).[1]

## Works

- *Cartoon and Caricature from Hogarth to Hoffnung* (1962).
- *Mr. Gillray: The Caricaturist, A Biography* (1965).
- *Fashionable Contrasts: Caricatures by James Gillray* (1966).
- *The Satirical Etchings of James Gillray* (1976).
- (with John Adler), *Doomed by Cartoon: How Cartoonist Thomas Nast and the New York Times Brought Down Boss Tweed and His Ring of Thieves* (2008).

## Notes

1. '[L. Draper Hill, editorial cartoonist with Ledger roots, dies](http://www.patriotledger.com/article/20090518/NEWS/305189669)', *[The Patriot Ledger](/source/The_Patriot_Ledger)* (May 18, 2009).

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