Loren Long Biography

Loren Long is the author and illustrator of the New York Times bestselling picture books Otis Otis and the Tornado Otis and the Puppy and An Otis Christmas. He is the No. 1 New York Times best-selling illustrator of President Barack Obama's picture book Of Thee I Sing the re-illustrated edition of The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper and Mr. Peabody's Apples by Madonna. Loren grew up in Lexington Kentucky in the 1970s. He attended the University of Kentucky and had five different majors in five years of college. He took every art class they offered and at the end of his junior year he decided to try to be a professional artist. By the end of college he had gotten the bug to be an illustrator. However he didn't feel ready for a career in the illustration field so he went to The American Academy of Art in Chicago. His first job as an illustrator was at a greeting card company which he held for about four years.

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