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Leo and Diane Dillon are a prolific American husband and wife team of

illustrators. Among their many awards are two back to back Caldecott Medals

for the children's books Why Mosquitoes Buzz In People's Ears and Ashanti To

Zulu: African Traditions.


Leo was raised in Brooklyn, and Diane in the Los Angeles area. They met at

the Parsons School of Design in New York City in 1953, some time after Diane

moved from California to New York. They graduated from Parsons in 1956, and

eventually married in March 1957. They describe their work as incorporating

motifs derived from their respective heritages. They have worked on both on

children's literature and adult paperbacks. An association with writer Harlan

Ellison led to jobs doing book covers for his short story collections and

both cover and interior woodcut illustration for his anthology Dangerous

Visions. Other jobs in the science fiction field include every one of their

covers for the original Ace Science Fiction Specials.

A detailed biography and introduction to their work and styles was written by

Byron Preiss in a book he edited in 1981, The Art of Leo & Diane Dillon.