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For over forty years the characters of John Bellairs have been brought to life through the creativity of many prominent artists, including Marilyn Fitschen, a longtime friend of Bellairs, and Edward Gorey, whose pen-and-ink drawings and watercolor dust-jackets added a distinctive and eerie touch to the imaginative stories of wizards, mansions, and talismans. |
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Judith Gwyn Brown
Judith Gwyn Brown is the illustrator of both cover and interior artwork in the 1978 hardcover edition of The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn.
Brown was born in New York City on October 15, 1933. She attended Cooper Union and the Parsons School of Design and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in art history and English from New York University in 1956. Brown learned the technical aspects of book design and offset printing while working for a printer doing paste-ups and book jackets from 1958 to 1960. Since 1959 she has been a free-lance illustrator.
Her first book, Marjorie Paradis' Mr. De Luca's Horse, was published in 1962. Since then Brown has illustrated more than forty books and has written and illustrated four of her own, as well as contributed to anthologies, periodicals, and the New York Times. Among the many famous children's authors whose works she has illustrated are Padraic Colum, Margaret Hodges, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Noel Streatfeild, and Andre Norton.
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Richard Egielski
Richard Egielski's first work for Dial was 1976's The Letter, The Witch, and the Ring. Egielski also illustrated The Tub People and The Tub Grandfather, both by Pam Conrad, and was the winner of the 1987 Caldecott Medal for his illustrations in Hey, Al.
Mr. Egsielski lives in Milford, New Jersey.
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Marilyn Fitschen
Marilyn Fitschen is the illustrator for John Bellairs’ first three books: St. Fidgeta & Other Parodies, The Pedant and the Shuffly, and The Face in the Frost. |
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Bart Goldman
Bart Goldman is the cover artist for The House Where Nobody Lived and The Sign of the Sinister Sorcerer and has illustrated Puffin paperbacks in the Lewis Barnavelt series from The House with a Clock in Its Walls through The Doom of the Haunted Opera.
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The Books
The Authors
The Series
Adaptations
Annotations
Book Collecting
Book collecting can be an exciting, if not expensive, hobby. Over the years, fans of John Bellairs have discussed the fine art of book finding and buying, specifically those first-edition hardcovers with illustrations by the late Edward Gorey.
Purchase
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