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Author and historian David McCullough has referred to Wendell Minor as "an exceptionally gifted and almost unimaginably prolific American artist. In the world of publishing, there is no one quite like him." He has created the original art for more than 2000 book jackets, many of them written by some of the best known authors of our time-Ray Bradbury, Mary Higgins Clark, Pat Conroy, John Hersey, Larry McMurtry, James A. Michener, Toni Morrison, Judith Rossner and a host of others. Mr. Minor is also well known for his children's book paintings. Five of his illustrated books, The Seashore Book, Sierra, Heartland, Mojave, and Everglades, have won numerous awards. His current picture books are Grassroots (poems of Carl Sandburg) and Grand Canyon, the first book he has written as well as illustrated.
A native of Aurora, Illinois, and a graduate of Ringling School of Art and Design, Wendell Minor has received over two hundred and fifty awards from every major graphics competition, including the Society of Illustrators and the New York Art Directors Club. His work has been widely exhibited in both group and solo exhibitions and is found in the permanent collections of the Museum of American Illustration, the Illinois State Museum, the Library of Congress, the NASA Art Collection at the John F. Kennedy Space Center, the Norman Rockwell Museum, and other public and private collections. Wendell Minor:Art for the Written Word, a retrospective of twenty-five years of Mr. Minor's book cover art, was published in 1995 by Harcourt Brace and Company. He lives with his wife and collaborator, Florence, In Washington, Connecticut.
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