Jody Lee
American fantasy artist (born 1958) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jody A. Lee (born June 18, 1958, in San Francisco, California) is a professional fantasy artist from San Francisco known best for her book cover illustrations.
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| Born | June 18, 1958 San Francisco, California, United States |
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Lee was born June 18, 1958, in San Francisco, California.[1] She graduated from the Academy of Art College in 1980 with a BA in Illustration.[1] She lives in Morro Bay, California with her husband and two children.
In 1980 Lee relocated to New York to work as a professional artist.[1] The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction says she has provided book cover art for "many fantasies with carefully designed, brightly coloured, and pleasantly decorous covers".[1] Authors she has worked with include Mercedes Lackey, Mickey Zucker Reichert, Lloyd Alexander, Madeleine L'Engle, and others.
She also painted role-playing games' covers such as RuneQuest (third edition, 1984) and Pendragon (first edition, 1985).[2] She illustrated the 1991 and 1996 book covers for A Wrinkle in Time, as published by Dell Yearling.
Lee has provided cover art for publishing companies such as Tor, Bantam, Doubleday, Dell, Warner, and DAW Books.[3]
The Society of Illustrators Museum in New York and the Delaware Art Museum have both held her work.[3]
She received the Chesley Award for Best Paperback Cover in 1989.[4] She was nominated for the Chesley nine additional times between 1990 and 2004,[5] and was also nominated in 1990 for the Award for Artistic Achievement.[6]
She was nominated for the Locus Award Best Artist in 1991.[7] In 1992, she received the Jack Gaughan Award for Best Emerging Artist.[1][8]
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