Edward Sorel has been a freelance artist since 1957. His illustrations, caricatures, and cartoons have appeared in The Atlantic, Esquire, The Nation, Fortune, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker. He is the author and/or illustrator of twenty books, including The Zillionaire’s Daughter (1989), First Encounters (1994), Unauthorized Portraits (1997) The Saturday Kid (2000), Mary Astor’s Purple Diary (2016) and Profusely Illustrated (2021).

In 2008, Sorel painted murals for the Waverly Inn, and a year later murals for the Monkey Bar, both in New York City. He has had exhibits at National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, the Davis Langdale Gallery in New York City, the Art Institute of Boston, and Galerie Bartch and Chariau in Munich, Germany, the Wilhelm Busch Museum in Hanover, Germany, and the Chris Beetles Gallery in London.

Photo credit: Leo Sorel