Biographical Information on Kenny Harrison

Harrison is an award-winning illustrator and Features Design Editor at The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, where he has worked since 1980. He was part of the newspaper’s 1997 and 2006 Pulitzer Prize winning teams, each receiving the Gold Medal for Public Service.

Harrison studied painting and illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He has created illustrations for such publications as Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe and Psychology Today. His art has been shown at the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), the New Orleans Museum of Art and Loyola University. He also guest curated The Fine Art of Illustration for the CAC.

In 1996 New Orleans Magazine chose him as one of the 30 People to Watch. In 1997 he received the Mayor’s Proclamation of Excellence, awarded by the City of New Orleans. In 2007, as a member of The Times-Picayune staff, Harrison shared an Honorary Doctoral Degree in Journalism awarded by Loyola University.

Harrison has been a guest speaker at the Society of Newspaper Design, the National Unity Conference, and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators conference.

He has taught illustration at Tulane’s University College. Articles about his work and techniques have appeared in Step by Step and U&LC (Upper & Lower Case) magazines.

Harrison’s first children’s book, “How I Became Champion of the Universe,” was released by Tricycle Press in August 2002.

Kenny is represented by Kelly Sonnack, of the Andrea Brown Literary Agency.

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