2008 Speakers
BARRY MOSER
Barry Moser is a book illustrator and designer with more than 300 titles to his credit. The books Moser has illustrated and/or designed forms a list of over three hundred titles including Moby-Dick and The Divine Comedy of Dante. Moser's edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, won the American Book Award for design and illustration in 1983. His Jump, Again! More Adventures of Brer Rabbit, was named by The New York Times as one of the "Ten Best Illustrated Children's Books" and his Appalachia, The Voices of Sleeping Birds won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award in 1991. He has won numerous citations and awards of merit from Communication Arts Magazine, Bookbuilders West, The American Association of University Presses, and The American Institute of Graphic Arts. His monumental work on the Pennyroyal Caxton Bible (1999) 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 ever to be mounted at the Library of National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. by a living artist. Moser lives in Massachusetts with his wife.
Speaker Links
Barry Moser interviews with The New Pantagruel.
Anna Olswanger has a conversation with Barry Moser.
Read a review of Barry Moser's The Holy Bible.
Read a conversation with Barry Moser.