Lawrence Ratzkin
Ratzkin, Lawrence
February 21, 1931 – May 18, 2011 (aged 80)
<br> After graduation from Cooper Union in 1951, Ratzkin "was soon being employed by major New York publishers officially as a book designer, not a cover artist, though he was credited with some genuinely artistic covers." --SFE Library of Congress catalogs one book with interior art credit to Ratzkin; namely , <i>The Inner City Mother Goose</i> (1969).