Kinuko Y. Craft
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Kinuko Y. Craft is an award-winning adult and children's fantasy book illustrator who has also been known to illustrate major mainstream magazines and other works. She lives in Norfolk, CT.
Originally from Japan, Craft moved to the United States in the 1960s and has since become a mainstay of American illustration. She trained at The Kanazawa Municipal College of Fine and Industrial Art (known in Japan as The Kanazawa Bidai) and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has won over 100 awards, including two Chesley Awards, two Spectrum Gold Awards, and the Spectrum Grand Master Award. Her paintings are included in permanent collections of the National Geographic Society in Washington DC and The Museum of American Illustration in New York City.
Craft has illustrated the work of many major science fiction and fantasy authors, including Isaac Asimov, Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, C. S. Lewis, Glenn Cook, Sherri S. Tepper, Ursula LeGuin, Guy Gavriel Kay, Robin McKinley, Brian Aldiss, Katherine Kurtz, Sile Rice, Tanith Lee, Andre Norton, Patricia McKillip, Raymond E. Feist, Pat O'Shea, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Patricia A. McKillip, and Juliet Marillier.
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Covers
1980
- October's Baby, by Glen Cook (Berkley)
2007
- Juliet Marillier, Wildwood Dancing (Knopf Books for Young Readers, Jan)
2008
- Patricia A. McKillip, The Bell at Sealey Head (Ace, Sep)
- Juliet Marillier, Cybele's Secret (Knopf, Sep)
2009
- Freda Warrington, Elfland (Tor, Aug)
