Nora Spicer Unwin (22 February 1907 – 1 January 1982) was a wood engraver, book illustrator and writer.
She credits a wartime job where she had the opportunity to work with children as well as living in a rural setting as influences on her book illustrations.
The rural New England setting of Peterborough and the surrounding Monadnock region provided inspiration for many of her illustrations and woodcuts.
In 1955, Unwin traveled and studied in Mexico, then settled in Wellesley, Massachusetts to be closer to Boston and its cultural life.
Among her other major works are the detailed woodcuts for John Kieran’s 1947 Footnotes on Nature, and her children's book Poquito: The Little Mexican Duck, based on her observations on poverty inspired by her trip to Mexico in 1955.
In 2022, New England College donated the Nora S. Unwin Collection to the Monadnock Center for History and Culture in Peterborough, New Hampshire.