Long, Loren

LOREN LONG attended the American Academy of Art from 1987 to 1988.
Loren Long is best known for his book cover illustrations, which in 2003
included Mr. Peabody’s Apples by Madonna, which was #1 on The New York
Times Best Seller List. In the same year, Long won the prestigious Golden
Kite Award for best picture book illustration from the Society of
Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators for I Dream of Trains, by Angela
Johnson. His illustrations were hailed as “stately paintings” in a Kirkus
starred review and “breathtaking backdrops” by Publisher’s Weekly. Also,
in 2004, Long won a Golden Kite Honor for his illustrations in Walt
Whitman’s When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer, which also won the 2004
Parent’s Choice Gold Award. Loren Long’s latest project, Watty Piper’s
The Little Engine That Could, has been on the NY Times Best Seller List
for several weeks as of February 2006. In his early career, Long worked
as an illustrator at Gibson Greeting Card Company in Cincinnati, and an
editorial illustrator for such publications as Forbes, Time, Atlantic
Monthly, and Sports Illustrated. He began illustrating book covers for
Harper Collins, Penguin, Houghton Mifflin, and the National Geographic
Society. Long’s work is in the permanent collections of the Cincinnati
Art Museum, the U.S. Golf Association’s Museum, and Sports Illustrated
magazine. To view Loren Long’s work, visit his website at
www.lorenlong.com.

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