Profile

Robert is an award-winning illustrator whose drawings appear in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Science Magazine, publications for Princeton, Harvard, Dartmouth and many other publications and websites.

He has contributed to Time Magazine, Newsweek, The Chicago Tribune, The L.A. Times, and nearly every magazine in (and out) of print. He helped create the look of Slate.com and was on staff there from 1996-2015. Robert won the prestigious 2004 Key Award for Best Comedy Poster for the movie Sideways.

Robert’s first book for children, “Wow! City!” won the ALA Notable Book Award for 2005. Nearly forty books have followed including: “Every Corner Needs a Monster” with Jean Reidy, 2013 Colorado Book Award winner “I got Two Dogs” with John Lithgow, “Air Show!” with Treat Williams, and “Sophie Peterman Tells the Truth” with Sarah Weeks.” In 2012, Robert’s “What Little Boys are made of” won a Kirkus Review Best Books of the Year award.

Robert is very proud to have done the drawings for “Keith Haring: The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing” by Kay Haring, Keith’s sister. It was a labor of love for all who worked to bring it to life from Dial Books for Children.

Robert has taught at School of Visual Arts in New York, BYU, and the University of Utah. Robert, a long time New Yorker, now lives in a storybook cottage in Salt Lake City, Utah,