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Jeanyee Wong (), calligrapher and illustrator

Browsing the site of The Typophiles, Inc., a group which encourages the appreciation and production of fine typography and bookmaking, and which has been mentioned in a recent GMD conversation, I came across the news of the recent death of Jeanyee Wong, the San Francisco-born calligrapher, illustrator and cartographer whose work enhanced two LECs - All Men are Brothers () and Travels in Arabia Deserta ().

She also contributed to other series that some GMDevotees collect: the Illustrated Modern Library, the Peter Pauper Press and J L Rodale's Story Classics. For the latter she illustrated one of their best books, Lafcadio Hearn's Tales out of the East; it was one of