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Lynd Ward
(1905 - 1985)
Lynd Kendall Ward (June 26, 1905 – June 28, 1985) was an American artist and storyteller, known for his series of wordless novels using wood engraving, and his illustrations for juvenile and adult books. His wordless novels have influenced the development of the graphic novel. Strongly associated with his wood engravings, he also worked in watercolor, oil, brush and ink, lithography and mezzotint. Ward was a son of Methodist minister and political organizer Harry F. Ward.
Bibliography
America’s Mark Twain (1962)
A brief biography of Samuel Clemens centered on his major works.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
May McNeer
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
America’s Paul Revere (1946)
A vivid history of one of America’s best-loved patriots.
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Author(s):
Esther Forbes
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1928)
A moving and tragic account of one man’s suffering.
Author(s):
Oscar Wilde
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Beowulf (1939)
A famous epic written in Old English about the hero Beowulf and his battles against the monsters of the north.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
William Ellery Leonard
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
The Biggest Bear (1952)
When Johnny Orchard goes hunting for a bear he comes home with a cub, but that’s not the end of the story.
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Bloomsday for Maggie (1976)
A young newspaper reporter in Tampa, Florida, during prohibition, "stuck" with society news while wishing for a front page assignment, struggles to combat the local prejudice about a "woman's place."
Author(s):
May McNeer
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Book Illustration (1952)
A collection of articles which originally appeared in Publishers’ Weekly.
Author(s):
Richard Williamson Ellis
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Lynd Ward
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Brady (1960)
A young Pennsylvania boy takes part in the pre-Civil War anti-slavery activities.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Jean Fritz
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Bright Island (1937)
The story of Thankful Curtis, her island home, her time at school and her return.
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Author(s):
Mabel L. Robinson
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
The Children of the New Forest (1930)
A family of Royalist children take to the woods to escape from their Puritan persecuters. A Robinsonnade in Merry England.
Author(s):
Frederick Marryat
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
The Children’s Hour Volume 14 (1953)
An anthology of animal stories.
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The Children’s Hour Volume 15 (1953)
A collection of short biographies of famous men and women.
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The Children’s Hour Volume 2 (1953)
An anthology of fairy tales, old and new. The illustrations by Robert Lawson had previously appeared in Just for Fun.
The Cloister and the Hearth (1932)
The story of a medieval scribe from Holland who travels to Italy and becomes a famous Dominican preacher.
Author(s):
Charles Reade
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 8 (1962)
Twenty-one brief biographies, chiefly of Americans.
Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 9 (1962)
Seventeen selections from adventure novels.
The Conquest of the North and South Poles (1952)
This short book includes American exploration at the poles by Peary and Byrd.
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Author(s):
Russell Owen
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Crime and Punishment (1956)
A young man murders an old woman for her money and is condemned to Siberia where he is redeemed by the love of a woman.
Author(s):
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Dragon Run (1955)
This time travel adventure takes Chris Mason and Mr. Wicker back to colonial days.
Author(s):
Carley Dawson
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Five Plays from Shakespeare (1964)
Abridged versions for performance by young people, including The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Comedy of Errors, The Tragedy of Macbeth, and The Tragedy of Julius Caesar.
Author(s):
William Shakespeare
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward