James
Ransome
James Ransome earned his
degree in illustration from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Using
design, perspective, and choice of palette, his talent as a visual storyteller
brings out the special voice of each book he illustrates. He is currently
a Society of Illustrators member, and has exhibited paintings in many group
and solo shows. He won the Coretta Scott King Award for illustrating
James Weldon Johnson's The Creation and received a Coretta Scott
King Honor Award for Uncle Jed's Barbershop by Margaree King Mitchell,
both ALA notable books. James Ransome currently lives in Poughkeepsie,
New York with his wife, Lesa, and their daughter Jaime.
James Ransome was a featured
panel speaker at the Virginia Hamilton Conference in 1996.
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