Richard Ellis, recognized as one of America's foremost painters of marine natural history subjects, is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. His published books include The Book of Sharks, The Book of Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises, Men and Whales, Great White Shark (with John E. McCosker and Al Giddings), Physty: The True Story of a Young Whale's Rescue, Monsters of the Sea, and Deep Atlantic: Life, Death, and Exploration in the Abyss.

Richard is working on an update of Great White Shark, and also books on Atlantis and on the giant squid. He has published more than eighty articles in such magazines as National Geographic, Audubon, and Geo, and he has led cruises in such places as Alaska and Antartica for the American Museum of Natural History.

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Richard Ellis, a resident of New York, is one of the world's foremost marine artists. His paintings and illustrations have been exhibited in museums and art galleries around the globe. Mr. Ellis has an intimate knowledge of the ocean's inhabitants and has observed the life of the seas in Alaska, Bahamas, Bermuda, Hawaii, the Azores, Baja California, Newfoundland, Japan, Patagonia, the Galapagos, Norway, Iceland, the Faeroes, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. He has written and illustrated articles for many magazines, including Audubon, National Geographic, Scientific American and Reader's Digest. He is the author of The Book of Whales, Men and Whales, The Book of Sharks, Great White Shark, Dolphins and Porpoises, Physty: The Story of a Young Whale's Rescue, Monsters of the Sea, Deep Atlantic: Life, Death and Exploration in the Abyss, Atlantis (in press), The Giant Squid (in press). 

Mr. Ellis is a member of the Society of Marine Mammology, the Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists, and the Explorers Club. He was a member of the American delegation to the International Whaling Commission from 1980 to 1990.