John Murphy

John is the in-house illustrator and cover designer for Idylls Press in Ashland, Oregon. He grew up in Wisconsin, however, where the harsh winters allowed for plenty of indoor leisure time to read and draw. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Oregon’s Clark Honors College in 2006 with a B.A. in Art History and received the 2005-2006 U of O Undergraduate Library Research Award for his paper, Pozzo’s Perspective: Visual Hagiography in the Church of St. Ignatius, Rome. In 2007 John taught Art History courses at Western Oregon University.

View samples of John’s book covers and illustrations:

• The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Wolfproof
• Travelers Market
• The Man Who Was Thursday

Here are a sample of John’s book reviews on Catholicfiction.net:

• The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
• The Cardinal’s Snuff-Box by Henry Harland
• Souls and Bodies by David Lodge
• The Moviegoer by Walker Percy