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Leo Dillon

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Born: March 01 1933

Died: 2525 05 20122012

Leo Dillon was a celebrated African-American magazine and book-cover artist, and a children's book author and illustrator. The vast majority of his work was done collaboratively with his wife, Diane Dillon, with whom he won his many awards, although a few early titles were solo projects.

Born in Brooklyn in 1933, Lionel John Dillon was the son of Trinidadian immigrants, and was educated at the Parsons School of Design, after serving in the US Navy for three years. Here he met Diane Sorber, who was initially a fierce artistic competitor. Eventually the two married, and commenced a fifty-year collaborative career that produced over one hundred speculative fiction book and magazine covers, and numerous picture-book illustrations. They were jointly awarded the Caldecott Medal in 1976 and 1977, the only artists to be so honored twice in a row. The Dillons had one son, Lee Dillon, who also became an artist, and with whom they collaborated on Nancy Willard's Pish, Posh, Said Hieronymus Bosch. Dillon died of lung cancer in 2012.

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Leo Dillon

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Books from Leo Dillon

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears

Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions

Enchantress from the Stars

The Hundred Penny Box

The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales

The Girl Who Spun Gold

Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems

Rap A Tap Tap

The People Could Fly: The Picture Book

Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales

Pish, Posh, Said Hieronymus Bosch

Dangerous Visions 2

Our Children Can Soar: A Celebration of Rosa, Barack, and the Pioneers of Change

If Kids Ran the World

Jazz On A Saturday Night

Who's in Rabbit's House?: A Masai Tale

Love and the Rocking Chair

To Every Thing There Is A Season

Mother Goose: Numbers on the Loose

Aïda