Leonid Gore
Born and raised in Belarus, Gore studied at the Academy of Arts in Minsk. In 1990 he immigrated to the United States. He has illustrated over thirty children’s books, and written five of his own. Two of the books Gore has illustrated have classical themes – Laura Geringer’s Pomegranate Seed (1995), a picture book retelling of the myth of Persephone, and Kate Hovey’s verse novel Voices of the Trojan War (2004). He has also created book cover designs for Phillip Pullman’s Clockwork (1998) and a number of children’s classics including Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mt Hyde and Other Stories and Frances Hodgson Burnett’s A Little Princess. His paintings have been exhibited at New York’s Society of Illustrators. He lives in Oakland, New Jersey with his wife and daughter.
Sources:
Official website (accessed: September 14, 2020).
Profile at scholastic.com (accessed: September 14, 2020).
Bio prepared by Miriam Riverlea, University of New England, mriverlea@gmail.com
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