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Children & Sci-Fi illustrator John Schoenherr dies at 74

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Children & Sci-Fi illustrator John Schoenherr dies at 74

Apr 15 2010

Illustrator John Schoenherr died on April 8 at the age of seventy-four. Winner of a Caldecott Medal in 1988 for Owl Moon, Schroenherr had prominent twin careers illustrating children's books and science fiction. He was the first artist to depict the world of Frank Herbert’s Dune stories, with its vast windswept deserts and huge menacing sandworms, and was responsible for cover art for books by Philip K. Dick, John Brunner and Anne McCaffrey.

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