Jessie Hartland

Jessie Hartland is a New York City based author and artist. She has written and illustrated over twelve books for children and adults including Steve Jobs: Insanely Great! (Schwartz & Wade, 2015) which has been translated in over 12 languages, Bon Appetit! The Delicious Life of Julia Child (Schwartz & Wade, 2012) and How the Sphinx got to the Museum, which was named a Top Ten Sci-Tech Books for Youth in 2010 from Booklist. Her editorial illustrations have appeared in the New York Times, Travel & Leisure magazine, the Washington Post, and many others. Hartland has also designed window displays for Barneys and Bloomingdale’s, painted murals at a Japanese amusement park, and illustrated ceramics, watches, packaging, and all sorts of other things. “For being a streamlined look at an impressively packed life, Insanely Great is a complete and multifaceted story…The book is nuanced without being sprawling; comprehensive but not exhaustive, for that matter.”-----Macworld.com “…bursting with exuberant urban-naif gouache paintings and a hand-lettered text that somehow manages to recount every second of Child’s life.” ---New York Times