Brian Pinkney
Sponsored by the School of Information and Library Science's Susan Steinfirst Memorial Lecture, acclaimed artist Brian Pinkney is the illustrator of two Caldecott Honor books The Faithful Friend, by Robert D. San Souci and Duke Ellington as well as the highly praised In the Time of the Drums. He is a graduate of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and holds a master's degree in illustration from the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Pinkney has also won four Coretta Scott King Honors, a Coretta Scott King Award, and the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award. He has been exhibited at The Art Institute of Chicago, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, The Detroit Institute of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The School of Visual Arts and The Society of Illustrators. He has been published by Greenwillow Books, Hyperion Books for Young Readers, Harcourt Children's Books, Simon & Schuster and Random House. His work has also appeared in New York Times Magazine, Women's Day, Business Tokyo, Ebony Man and Instructor.
Pinkney's own books include Hush, Little Baby; Cosmo and the Robot; Max Found Two Sticks; JoJo's Flying Side Kick; and The Adventures of Sparrowboy. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife Andrea, with whom he often collaborates, and his two children.
