Brian Pinkney (born August 28, 1961) is an American illustrator.
His father, Jerry Pinkney, was also an illustrator and his mother, Gloria Jean, was an author, milliner, and silversmith.
[1] As of 2019, he is living with his wife Andrea Davis Pinkney and their two children in Brooklyn, New York.
They often work together on projects and between them, have published over seventy children's books.
[2] Pinkney has won two Caldecott Honors, four Coretta Scott King Honors and a Coretta Scott King Award, and the Boston Globe Horn Book Award.