Kamen, Gloria

Illustrator of children's literature.

Gloria Kamen is a free lance designer and illustrator who specialized in illustrating children's books from 1964. Her work garnered three Educational Press Association awards for magazine covers and one for design of a feature section of a magazine for the National Education Association.

Gloria Kamen was born April 9, 1923, in New York, New York. She has made her career as an illustrator, and later an author, and has received several awards for her illustrations. She writes both fiction and non-fiction for children. Her non-fiction, all self-illustrated, consists of biographical works of Rudyard Kipling, Charlie Chaplin, Fiorello La Guardia, Edward Lear, and Fanny Mendelssohn. Biographical Sources: Something About the Author, vols. 9, 98