Mitchell Hooks

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Peggy Mann's first novel, A Room in Paris (Doubleday, 1955) was adapted for The Philco Television Playhouse (August 7, 1955), and a few months later, the Popular Library paperback featured this cover by Mitchell Hooks.

Mitchell Hooks (1923 - March 2013) was an American artist and illustrator renowned for his artwork for paperback books and magazines.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Hooks served with the U.S. military, including occupation duty in Germany, then began his freelance illustration career in New York City. He painted paperback covers for Avon, Bantam Books, Dell Books, Fawcett Publications and others, and illustrated for magazines including Cosmopolitan, The Saturday Evening Post, The Ladies' Home Journal, Redbook, McCall's, and Woman's Day. He illustrated romance novels, science fiction and crime fiction, such as Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer, Peter Corris's Cliff Hardy and B.B. Johnston's Superspade series.

Hooks illustrated the 36-page booklet How to Respect and Display Our Flag for the U.S. Marine Corps. He also designed film posters, including the first James Bond movie, Dr. No — for which he painted "the iconic image of Sean Connery as Bond" — and The Face of Fu Manchu.

In later years he also illustrated hardcover books for The Franklin Library, Reader's Digest Books and Coronado Publishers, and did advertising art.

Hooks was 89 when he died.

Awards

In 1999, he was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame.

External links

• Mitchell H. Hooks Obituary
• Mitchell Hooks paperback covers
• . Reprinted with permission. Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

Further reading

"The Paperback Art of Mitchell Hooks", Illustration Magazine 10