Harry Bliss' Biography

Harry Bliss is a cartoonist and cover artist for The New Yorker magazine. Growing up in upstate New York amidst a family of successful painters and illustrators, Bliss went on to study painting at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Illustration at The University of the Arts (BFA) and Syracuse University (MA). Prior to his cartoons and covers for The New Yorker magazine, Bliss illustrated dozens of book covers for writers such as Lawrence Block, Dorothy Uhnak, Bob Dole, and Fiona Buckley.

Bliss's first children's book, A Fine, Fine School by Newbery-award winning author, Sharon Creech, was a New York Times bestseller. Bliss went on to illustrate Which Would You Rather Be? by William Steig, Countdown To Kindergarten by Alison McGhee, a winner of the Minnesota Book Award, and Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin, a #1 New York Times bestseller as well as Don't Forget To Come Back by Robie H. Harris (featured in the 24th Annual Exhibition of "The Original Art Show" at the Society of Illustrators). Bliss's current book Mrs. Watson Wants Your Teeth by Alison McGhee was published in the Fall of 2004, followed by Diary of a Spider by Doreen Cronin due out in the Fall of 2005.

Harry Bliss lives in South Burlington, Vermont.