John Hendrix

John Hendrix is a New York Times bestselling illustrator and author of many children’s books, including Miracle Man: The Story of Jesus and The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler. His illustrations have appeared on book jackets, newspapers, and magazines all over the country. John is a Professor of Art, teaching illustration at the Sam Fox School of Art and Design at Washington University in St. Louis. He is Chair of the MFA in Illustration and Visual Culture, teaching with fellow professor D.B. Dowd.

Previously, John taught design at the Parsons School of Design and worked at The New York Times as Assistant Art Director of the Op-Ed page for several years. John’s work has appeared in numerous publications, such as Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, Esquire, The New York Times, and Time Magazine, National Geographic, among many others.