Artzybasheff, ahr tsih BAH shuf, Boris (1899-1965), was an American artist and writer of both adult and children's books. He illustrated Edward L. Thorndike's edition of Arabian Nights (1937) and Padraic Colum's The Forge in the Forest (1925). Artzybasheff wrote and illustrated Poor Shaydullah (1931), Seven Simeons (1937), Axis in Agony (1944), and As I See (1934). A versatile artist, he employed a variety of techniques. He became known for his novel methods of illustrating charts and maps, and for his magazine covers. He was born in Kharkov (also spelled Kharkiv), Russia, on May 25, 1899, and became an American citizen in 1926. He died on July 16, 1965.