Lisa Brown (artist) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Lisa Brown is the illustrator and/or author of nine books, including Picture the Dead, How To Be, The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming, and Baby, Mix Me A Drink. She draws the Three Panel Book Review cartoon for the book section of the San Francisco Chronicle. She graduated with a BA from Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college founded in 1831 and located in Middletown, Connecticut. According to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Wesleyan is the only Baccalaureate College in the nation that emphasizes undergraduate instruction in the arts and...

in Middletown, Connecticut in 1993, and an MS in Communications Design from the Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute is a private art college in New York City located in Brooklyn, New York, with satellite campuses in Manhattan and Utica. Pratt is one of the leading undergraduate art schools in the United States and offers programs in Architecture, Graphic Design, History of Art and Design,...

in Brooklyn, New York in 1998. She lives in San Francisco with her son and her husband, Daniel Handler

Daniel Handler

Daniel Handler is an American author, screenwriter and accordionist. He is best known for his work under the pen name Lemony Snicket.-Personal life:...

Recent Projects

Vampire Boy's Good Night is a picture book about a small vampire boy and a little witch. On a cold autumn night, they head out in search of ″real children.″

Picture the Dead is a traditional ghost story with a visual twist. Co-written with Adele Griffin

Adele Griffin

Adele Griffin is the critically acclaimed author of numerous novels for young adults, including the Vampire Island and Witch Twins series. Her novels Sons of Liberty and Where I Want to Be were both National Book Award Finalists....

, the visual clues allow the reader to unravel the mystery in step (or ahead of) the narrator. It’s not a graphic novel, and not an illustrated chapter book, but a novel in which the illustrations are an integral part of the whole. It’s a book about the dealing with the visual clues but at the same time infused with the more traditional narrative around each image. The illustrations are based on old daguerreotypes and albumen prints of anonymous sitters, culled from the Online Prints and Photographs Reading Room of the Library of Congress. The background patterns are based on actual Victorian designs.

The book is set in Brookline, Massachusetts

Brookline, Massachusetts

Brookline is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States, which borders on the cities of Boston and Newton. As of the 2010 census, the population of the town was 58,732.-Etymology:...

during the American Civil War

American Civil War

The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

. Haunted by the recent deaths of her twin brother and fiancé, seventeen-year-old Jennie Lovell forges an unlikely friendship in a Spiritualist photographer who helps her to expose tragic family secrets.

Prizes & Honors

CCBC CHOICES 2007: New (c2006) Books for Children and Young Adults Recommended by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) School of Education, University of Wisconsin Madison (for How to Be, HarperCollins 2006)

A Baker’s Dozen: The Best Children’s Books for Family Literacy 2007, presented by The Pennsylvania Center for the Book, PennState University, (for How to Be, HarperCollins 2006)

The Association of Booksellers for Children (ABC) Best Books for Children 2006 (for How to Be, HarperCollins 2006)

American Illustration Annuals 25 and 26, artwork chosen for display on the web

Print Regional Design Annual 2006 for the book cover design of How to Dress for Every Occasion by The Pope

Print Regional Design Annual 2007 for book cover designs of Baby Do My Banking' and Baby Fix My Car, McSweeney’s 2006

AIGA 50 Covers / 50 Books 2007 for book cover design of The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming

Previous Titles

"Half-Minute Horrors" (2009 - author & illustrator, contributor)
Baby Plan My Wedding (2009 - author, illustrator & designer)
Baby Get Me Some Lovin (2009 - author, illustrator & designer)
Sometimes You Get What You Want (2008 – illustrator)
The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming (2007 - illustrator & designer)
How to Be (2006 - author & illustrator)
Baby, Do My Banking (2006 - author, illustrator & designer)
Baby, Fix My Car (2006 - author, illustrator & designer)
How to Dress For Every Occasion By The Pope (2005 - illustrator, as Sarah “Pinkie” Bennett, and designer)
Baby Mix Me a Drink (2005 - author, illustrator & designer)
Baby Make Me Breakfast (2005 - author, illustrator & designer)
Outrageous Women of Colonial America (2001 – illustrator)
Outrageous Women of the Renaissance (1999 – illustrator)
Outrageous Women of the Middle Ages (1998 – illustrator)
Outrageous Women of Ancient Times (1998 – illustrator)

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