Diane Dillon
Author of Rap a Tap Tap: Here's Bojangles--Think of That!
About the Author
Image credit: Diane and Leo Dillon
Works by Diane Dillon
The Horn Book Magazine 1 copy
Associated Works
Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories — Illustrator, some editions — 1,939 copies
Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life (1978) — Cover artist, some editions — 1,604 copies
The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (1969) — Cover artist, some editions — 778 copies
The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade (1953) — Cover artist — 755 copies
From Sea to Shining Sea A Treasury of American Folklore and Folk Songs (1993) — Illustrator — 696 copies
The New Milton Cross' Complete Stories of the Great Operas (1947) — Cover artist, some editions — 657 copies
I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World (1992) — Illustrator, some editions — 588 copies
Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales (1995) — Illustrator, some editions — 555 copies
Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation (1961) — Cover artist, some editions — 326 copies
Our Children Can Soar: A Celebration of Rosa, Barack, and the Pioneers of Change (2009) — Illustrator — 211 copies
Kiss Sleeping Beauty Goodbye: Breaking the Spell of Feminine Myths and Models (1979) — Cover artist, some editions — 136 copies
On the Wings of Peace: Writers and Illustrators Speak Out for Peace, in Memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1995) — Cover artist — 98 copies
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume IV (1988) — Illustrator, some editions — 98 copies
The Jewel in the Lotus: A Historical Survey of the Sexual Culture of the East (1959) — Cover artist, some editions — 88 copies
Two Queens of Heaven: Aphrodite and Demeter (Greek Myths) (1974) — Cover artist, some editions — 50 copies
Claymore and Kilt: Tales of Scottish Kings and Castles (1967) — Illustrator, some editions — 49 copies
Behind the Back of the Mountain: Black Folktales from Southern Africa (1973) — Illustrator — 27 copies
In Praise of Our Fathers and Our Mothers: A Black Family Treasury by Outstanding Authors and Artists (1997) — Cover artist, some editions — 24 copies
The Making Of An Afro-american: Martin Robison Delany, 1812-1885 (1971) — Cover artist, some editions — 17 copies
Whirlwind Is a Spirit Dancing: Poems Based on Traditional American Indian Songs and Stories (1974) — Illustrator — 17 copies
A Hornbook for Witches: Stories and Poems for Halloween — Cover artist — 4 copies
Voyages: the 25th Annual World Fantasy Convention — Cover artist — 2 copies
Tales of Witches, Ghosts and Goblins — Cover artist — 2 copies
Gent, April 1959 (Vol. 3, No. 4) — Illustrator — 1 copy
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- Legal name
- Dillon, Diane Clare Sorber
- Birthdate
- 1933-03-13
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Places of residence
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Brooklyn, New York, USA - Education
- Parsons School of Design
- Occupations
- Children's Book Illustrator
Children's Book Author
artist - Relationships
- Dillon, Leo (husband)
Dillon, Lee (son) - Awards and honors
- Caldecott Medal (1976)
Caldecott Medal (1977)
Society of Illustrators Lifetime Achievement Award (Contemporary ∙ 2008)
Chesley Award for Lifetime Achievement (2019) - Short biography
- Diane Dillon is a celebrated American magazine and book-cover artist, and a children's book author and illustrator. The vast majority of her work was done collaboratively with her husband, Leo Dillon, with whom she won her many awards.
Born in Los Angeles in 1933, Diane Sorber was educated at the Parsons School of Design in New York City, where she met Leo Dillon, who was initially a fierce artistic competitor. Their fifty-year collaboration, after their eventual marriage, resulted in 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. Diane Dillon's first solo project, published after Leo's death in 2012, is the recent I Can Be Anything! Don't Tell Me I Can't. (source: Wikipedia)
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Children's Book of the Year. A Parents' Choice Award Winner.