Richard Bober (August 14, 1943 – December 10, 2022) was an American artist best known for his work for science fiction, fantasy, and similar paperback novels.
[1] While holding a series of jobs, he began his professional art career in the late 1960s.
Bober's style was Romantic, and he primarily worked in oil.
[1] Bober began painting covers for paperback novels in the 1970s.
[1] In 2023, Amory Sivertson of podcast Endless Thread identified Bober as the illustrator of the 1976 paperback reissue of Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time.