Theodore Taylor III is an artist living in Richmond, Virginia with his partner Sarah and son Theo. During the day he works as a front-end web developer while also maintaining a career as a children’s book illustrator in his free time. His work is inspired by his love of music, comics, animation, video games, street art and more. He is also a self-proclaimed pizza connoisseur.
In 2014 he received the Coretta Scott King John Steptoe New Talent Award for his work in When The Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Here and the Creation of Hip Hop. In 2015 the book also won the Texas Bluebonnet Award.
He is represented by HGLiterary.
A Picture Book Illustrator Finds Joy in Graffiti
Kirkus – 2022
Off the Wall
The Horn Book – 2022
Theodore Taylor III’s HOME
Taubman Museum of Art – 2022
Meet Theodore Taylor III
Visual Arts Center – 2021
Lil Nas X Says Children Are His Core Audience Right Now, And That’s OK
NPR – 2021
Bedtime Goes Woke
Daily Mail – 2021
A Lot Is Still So Much the Same’: Misty Copeland on Decades of Racism and Ballet
TIME – 2018