Louis S. Glanzman was born in Virginia in 1922, and is one of the great illustrators of the of the last fifty years. He was self-taught, and began his career by illustrating comic books when he was sixteen. He proceeded to work on the Air Force magazine in the 1940s, and illustrated many children's books in the 1950s, including the Pippi Longstocking series and Tom Corbett series. He has painted portraits and worked as a free-lance artist for more than sixty years, and his paintings hang in the Smithsonian, Independence Hall, the New York City Museum, the Ford Theater, the US Air Force Historical Foundation, and many important collections elsewhere. His work has appeared on vitually every major magazine in the United States, including Reader's Digest, Boy's Life, The New Yorker, National Lampoon, National Geographic, and The Saturday Evening Post. He was the artist of over eighty covers for Time Magazine, including such historic portraits as Pope Paul, Charles DeGaulle, Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon, and Neil Armstrong's moon landing. His work has also appeared in National Geographic, and the books of Louis L'amour. He has four grown daughters and still paints, but now lives in retirement with his wife in Medford, New Jersey.