Leonard Everett Fisher is a painter, an illustrator, an author, a designer, and an educator. Born in New York City on 24 June 1924, Fisher spent his childhood in the Sea Gate community in Brooklyn, New York. As a third grader he attended drawing classes in a professional school for gifted children. It was his father, Benjamin M. Fisher, marine engineer and amateur artist, who inspired him at his drafting table and created for him a loose-leaf "how to draw this and that" book. He attributed his broad range of interests to his mother, Ray Shapiro Fisher, who read aloud to him from Compton's Encyclopedia when he was a child. He won his first art award at age seven in the Wanamaker Art Competition for New York City School Children for a picture of a Pilgrim shooting a turkey. His formal art lessons began when he was eight at the...