Life: September 19, 1867 (Lewisham, London, England) - September 6, 1939 (Limpsfield, Surrey, England);
Lived for: illustrating fairy-tales and legends;
Books: Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, Rip van Winkle (by Washington Irwing), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (byLewis Carroll), A Midsummer Night's Dream (by William Shakespeare), Undine (by Friedrich de la Motte Fouque), The Rhinegold and The Valkyrie (by Richard Wagner), Siegfried and The Twilight of the Gods (by Richard Wagner), Aesop's Fables, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by J.M.Barrie), A Christmas Carol (by Charles Dickens), The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table (by Alfred W. Pollard), English Fairy Tales, Some British Ballads, Irish Fairy Tales, Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, and many others;
Where to buy: The Arthur Rackham Treasury: 86 Full-Color Illustrations; Arthur Rackham: A Life with Illustration; Rackham's Fairy Tale Illustrations in Full Color; Rackham's Color Illustrations for Wagner's "Ring"; Shakespeare's a Midsummer Night's Dream; Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens at Amazon.com.