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Michael Whelan
Michael Whelan is an illustrator who specializes in fantasy and science fiction book cover art. Some of his best-known covers appear on Stephen King novels and the Del Rey editions...view moreMichael Whelan is an illustrator who specializes in fantasy and science fiction book cover art. Some of his best-known covers appear on Stephen King novels and the Del Rey editions of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series and Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars series. He also created interior illustrations for Stephen King's The Dark Tower and The Gunslinger, the final volume of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, and Brandon Sanderson's The Stormlight Archive.
Whelan's work has garnered dozens of awards, including fifteen Hugo Awards, Twelve Chelsey Awards, three World Fantasy Awards, and an unofficial "SuperHugo" for Best Artist of the Last 50 Years. He is also the first living artist to have been inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.view less