Lynd Ward

Lynd Kendall Ward was an American artist and novelist, known for his series of wordless novels using wood engraving, and his illustrations for juvenile and adult books. His wordless novels have influenced the development of the graphic novel. Although strongly associated with his wood engravings, he also worked in watercolor, oil, brush and ink, lithography and mezzotint. Ward was a son of Methodist minister, political organizer and radical social activist Harry F. Ward, the first chairman of the American Civil Liberties Union on its founding in 1920.

26 June 1905

Born on the same birth day (26 June): Aimé Césaire • Bronisław Żurakowski • Donald M. Ashton • Georgie Fame • Hedvig Sophia of Sweden • Inha Babakova • Jai Taurima • Jerome Kersey • John, Count of Angoulême • Juan de Palafox y Mendoza • Paul Bitok • Robert Maclennan, Baron Maclennan of Rogart • Samuel R. Watkins • Sunthorn Phu

Born in the same month (June 1905): Armand Mondou • Arthur Davis (animator) • Eduard Tubin • Fred Alderman • Jack Pickersgill • Jacques Goddet • James J. Braddock • James T. Rutnam • Jean-Paul Sartre • John Van Ryn • Lillian Hellman • Martin Gottfried Weiss • Mildred Natwick • Ray Barbuti • Robert Newton • Rupert Wildt • Steve Broidy