Michael Foreman (author / illustrator)

Michael Foreman (born 1938) is a British author and illustrator, mainly for children. He lives in London.

He has worked with Michael Morpurgo on many occasions, and has written books that are nearly all set in, or after, World War II, such as "War Boy".

Michael Foreman is possibly one of the most popular and prolific illustrators of modern children's books. Born in Suffolk in 1938, he grew up near Lowestoft and studied at Lowestoft School of Art and later at the Royal College of Art, where he won a scholarship to the U.S. After graduating, he lectured at St Martin's School of Art and then moved to Chicago where he worked as Art director of Playboy. He later returned to London and worked as Art Director of King. He returned to lecturing in 1967 and has since worked at the Royal College of Art, the London School of Printing and the Central School of Art.

His career as an illustrator began in 1961 when he illustrated the Comic Alphabet written by Eric Partridge and published by Routledge & Kegan Paul. Over the years he has illustrated books by Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Roald Dahl, Rudyard Kipling and many others as well as writing and illustrating his own books. He has also designed Christmas stamps for the Post Office and regularly contributed to American and European magazines.

Michael Foreman is an award-winning (illustrator) of over 180 books his array of prizes including the Kate Greenaway Award (twice), the Smarties Book Prize, the Kurt Maschler Award, the Children's Book Award, the Bologna Book Prize and the Francis William's Illustration Award (twice). Exhibitions of his work have been held in Europe, America and Japan.

A brief bibliography can be found at http://www.marchhousebooks.com/?page=shop/disp&pid=page_news6&CLSN_1948