Patricia Wynne

Patricia Wynne is a freelance artist and illustrator with a career of over forty-five years. Specializing in scientific illustration, she has illustrated numerous scientific papers in collaboration with various scientists. She has also illustrated a number of children's books, including seven Star Wars storybooks published between 1978 and 1980.

The children's book Hello, Bumblebee Bat, which Wynne illustrated, was a Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Honor book. As the artist-in-residence at the Department of Mammalogy of the American Museum of Natural History for over forty years, Wynne was honored as the namesake of a new species of bat in 2014—Thyroptera wynneae, or "Patricia's disk-winged bat."

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