Oh, I don't think you object to foreign writers!
Really.
But I do wonder who you would have suggested in the alternative.
Lynne Cheney just popped into my head because her book about Washington crossing the Delaware (illustrated by the wonderful Peter Fiore) happens to be sitting on the book cart. And of course, there's the political reference.
I guess I could have said Madonna, who is also on the cart, but that wouldn't have gotten a rise out of you.
Cheney and Madonna have this in common: their prose is elevated by proximity to superb illustration.