Barry Moser 

In addition to being an illustrator, Mr. Moser is also a printer, painter, printmaker, designer, author, essayist, and teacher. Mr. Moser frequently lectures and acts as visiting artist and artist in residence at universities and institutions across the country. He was for many years on the faculty of the Department of Illustration Studies at the Rhode Island School of Design. He was also the 1995 Whitney J. Oates Fellow in Humanities at Princeton University and artist and writer in residence in the Children’s Literature department at Vassar College in 1998. In the fall of 1999 he was artist in residence at Dartmouth College and the University of Iowa. He was the Elliott lecturer in the book arts at the International Festival of Authors in Toronto in the fall of 2000. He was the Third Flannery O’Connor Memorial Lecturer, Georgia State College, Milledgeville, Georgia in 2001. He is currently Professor in Residence at Smith College where he also serves as Printer to the College. Mr. Moser lives in western Massachusetts.

 Among Mr. Moser’s published works is The Divine Comedy of Dante (Bantam). Moser's edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Univ. of California Press) won the National Book Award for design and illustration in 1983 and prompted the poet John Ashbery writing in Newsweek (March 1, 1982), to call Moser's work “never less than dazzling.” Mr. Moser was honored as a “New England Living Treasure” in 1983 by the New England Artist Festival. His Jump, Again! The Further Adventures of Brer Rabbitt (Harcourt), was named by the New York Times as one of the “Ten Best Illustrated Children's Books” of 1987 as well as one of Redbook's Best Books for Children for that same year. His collaboration with Cynthia Rylant, Appalachia, the Voices of Sleeping Birds (Voyager), won the prestigious Boston Globe-Horn Book Award in 1991, and his collaboration with Ken Kesey, Little Tricker the Squirrel Meets Big Double Bear (Viking) was named one of the best books of 1990–1991 by the International Board of Books for Young People (the IBBY Awards) of Zurich, Switzerland. His collaboration with his granddaughter, Isabelle Harper, My Dog Rosie (Scholastic) was named a Best Books of the Year by Parents Magazine in 1994. Whistling Dixie (HarperCollins), his collaboration with Marcia Vaughn, was a 1995 ALA Notable Book, as was his collaboration with Virginia Hamilton, When Birds Could Talk and Bats Could Sing (Blue Sky Press), in 1997. He was also the recipient of the Toronto Public Library's Best 100 Books for Children and Teens: Advanced Picture Books Category for Dippers (Tundra) by Barbara Nichol in 2003.

 He has won numerous citations and awards of merit from Communication Arts magazine, Bookbuilders West, The American Association of University Presses, The American Institute of Graphic Arts, and the prestigious Umhoefer Prize for Achievement in the Humanities in 2006 from the Arts and Humanities Foundation. His monumental work on the Pennyroyal Caxton Bible has been the subject of scores of articles in print, television, and radio, as well as the subject of a documentary film called A Thief Among the Angels. It was also featured in the only one-man exhibit by a living artist ever to be mounted at the National Gallery of Art Library in Washington, D.C., as well as in the summer and autumn of 2000 at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem as part of an exhibit called "The Bible in the Landscape."