Leonard Everett Fisher (June 24, 1924 – March 2, 2024) was an American artist best known for illustrating children's books.
Fisher was born in the Bronx borough of New York City in June 1924[1][2] and was raised in the Sea Gate section of Brooklyn.
Between 1932 and 1942, Leonard Everett Fisher continued his training at the Heckscher Foundation (NY), with Moses and Raphael Soyer (NY), with Reginald Marsh at the Art Students League of New York, and Serge Chermayeff at Brooklyn College.
[4] On July 15, 2014, Fisher was announced as a finalist for the 2015 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature.
[5] Fisher lived in Westport, Connecticut, with his wife, Margery, a retired school librarian, and member of New York's Bank Street College of Education's Children's Book Committee.