Susan Einzig

Her father, the managing director of a clothing company, encouraged her artistic talents, and at the age of 15 she began studying art at the Breuer School of Design.

[2] Living with family friends in Hampstead Garden Suburb in London, she enrolled at the Central School of Arts and Crafts,[2] where she studied wood engraving under Gertrude Hermes and John Farleigh, and drawing and illustration under Bernard Meninsky, William Roberts and Maurice Kesselman.

In 1945 she was commissioned by Noel Carrington to illustrate a children's book, Mary Belinda and the Ten Aunts by Norah Pulling, using the technique of autolithography in which the artist draws directly on the printing surface, using a separate plate for each of six colours.

[3] Other books she illustrated include Sappho: a Picture of Life in Paris by Alphonse Daudet (1954), Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce (1958), which won the 1959 Carnegie Medal (see figure), and The Bastables by E. Nesbit (1966), a new edition.

[5] In her later years she lived in Fulham, London, and died of heart failure at the Royal Brompton Hospital, Chelsea, on 25 December 2009.