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Mary GrandPré (born 1954 in South Dakota) is an American illustrator, best known for illustrating all of the American editions of the Harry Potter books. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Wall Street Journal and the film Antz. GrandPré spent most of her life in Minnesota and now resides in Sarasota, Florida with her family where she has donated work to Habitat for Humanity and a wellness community. Other books she illustrated include Pockets, Chin Yu Min and the Ginger Cat, Vegetables Go to Bed, The Thread of Life, Swing Around the Sun, The Sea Chest, Sweep Dreams, Plum, and Henry and Pawl and the Round Yellow Ball. She began drawing when she was five years old, beginning with a reproduction of Mickey Mouse. By age ten, she was imitating Salvador Dalí, experimenting with stretched objects painted with oils, before graduating to copying black and white photos from the encyclopedia. GrandPré holds degrees from Pomona College and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. (Full article)