Eric Fan

Eric Fan is a picture book author and illustrator. One part of the creative team - with his brother Terry Fan - known collectively as the Fan Brothers. Their widely praised debut picture book The Night Gardener received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Kirkus, and was Amazon's 2016 Best Book of the Year, ages 6-8.

Together they also illustrated The Darkest Dark, written by Chris Hadfield and Kate Fillion, and The Antlered Ship, written by Dashka Slater. Their next book together, Ocean Meets Sky, publishes on May 15th 2018.

Eric has a passion for vintage bikes, clockwork contraptions, and impossible dreams. He lives by the lake, which he likes to imagine is the sea.