Publisher's Synopsis
Including a short introductory essay (OUR PERSONAL CANONS), PORTRAITS OF WRITERS 2021 is a collection of 38 portraits of writers with accompanying quotes or short passages from the authors' works. Jonathan Twingley is a visual artist and writer. His drawings and paintings have been published by the Atlantic, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Nation, the Johns Hopkins University Gazette, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Boston Globe and the New Republic among many others. He is the author and illustrator of The Badlands Saloon: An Illustrated Novel (Scribner/Simon & Schuster). His work has been recognized by the New York Society of Illustrators, the Los Angeles Society of Illustrators (Bronze Medal), American Illustration, Communication Arts Magazine, The Best of News Design, the Society of Publication Designers and PRINT magazine's New Visual Artists Review. Exhibitions of his drawings and paintings have hung in New York City, Florida, North Dakota, Montana and Minnesota. Born and raised in Bismarck, North Dakota, Twingley took a Bachelor's degree from Minnesota State University Moorhead in 1996 and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1998. From 2007 - 2020 he served as Senior Lecturer in the illustration program at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Beginning in 2018, his self-publishing initiative - WORDS & PICTURES PRESS - has published 10 catalog collections focused primarily on his work in sketchbooks. He lives and works in Jersey City, New Jersey.
