
Leo Dillon passed away in 2012.ĭiane Dillon was born in Los Angeles in 1933. They produced more than 100 speculative book and magazine covers together. Leo and Diane collaborated on covers and woodcuts for a number of Harlan Ellison books in 1981, Ellison edited a biography of them entitled The Art of Leo & Diane Dillon. Leo and Diane are the only illustrators to win the Caldecott Medal two years in a row, which they did in 19. They married in 1957 and became an iconic artistic duo. He met his future wife, Diane, when they were both studying at the Parsons School of Design in New York in 1953. Leo Dillon was born to Trinidadian parents in New York in 1933.

The Hundred Penny Box received a Newbery Honor Award and is a recipient of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and also a American Library Association Notable Children's Book, and Teacup Full of Roses was a New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year. Her book Ray Charles, a nonfiction biography of Ray Charles, received the Coretta Scott King Award.

Sharon Bell Mathis has written many books for children and young adults and received many accolades in her career.
