Author · 26 June 1905 – 28 June 1985

Lynd Ward

Lynd Kendall Ward (June 26, 1905 – June 28, 1985) was an American artist and novelist, known for his series of wordless novels using wood engraving, and his illustrations for juvenile and adult books. His wordless novels have influenced the development of the graphic novel. Strongly associated with his wood engravings, he also worked in watercolor, oil, brush and ink, lithography and mezzotint. Ward was a son of Methodist minister and political organizer Harry F. Ward. His most well known books are Gods' Man and his Caldecott-winning The Biggest Bear.

Works

The Biggest Bear
1952
The little red lighthouse and the great gray bridge
1942
Gods' man
1929
Wild pilgrimage
1932
The silver pony
1973
Prelude to a million years and Song without words
2010
Vertigo
1937
The treasure of Topo-el-Bampo.
1972
Many mansions
1947
God's man
1930
Nic of the woods
1965
Mad man's drum
1930
Gods' man
1929
Lynd Ward
2010
Face to face
1985
Beowulf
1939
Graphic witness
2007
Gods' Man - a Novel in Woodcuts
2017
America's Abraham Lincoln
1980
The Flutter of an Eyelid
2020
Graphic Witness
2021
Storyteller without words
1974
Lynd Ward
1986
Vertigo
1937
Graphic Witness
2007
John Wesley
1957
Inner room.
1988
Lynd Ward's last, unfinished, wordless novel
2001
Prelude to a million years
1933
Song without words
1936
Lynd Ward, wood engravings 1929-1974
1974
Prelude to a million years
1933
One of us; the story of John Reed. In lithographs by Lynd Ward, narrative by Granville Hicks
1935
Nic of the woods,
1965
A world is won
1937
al-Dubb al-akbar
1954
One of us : the story of John Reed,
1935
Gods Man Madmans Drum Wild Pilgrimage
2010
Frankenstein
2010
Spice and the Devil's Cave
2013
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