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Barry Moser, born on October 15th, is the consummate artist, with experience as a designer, printmaker, painter, painter, illustrator, printer, author, teacher, and lecturer. Born in Tennessee, he was schooled at Auburn University, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and then did graduate work at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His works are represented in many prestigious collections including the Metropolitan Museum, the British Museum, Harvard, Princeton, and the Library of Congress. Mr. Moser's body of work includes almost 200 titles which he has illustrated or designed, including Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, which won the National Book Award for Design and Illustration in 1983. In 1991, he won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for his collaboration with Cynthia Rylant – Appalachia, the Voices of Sleeping Birds. A Newsweek article described Moser's work as "never less than dazzling."
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