Date Born/ Age:September 30, 1946

Length:5'8"

Weight: 155

Favorite Food: Steak and Fries

Family:Zimmerman

Genus:Homo-Sapien

Species: Earth-Human

Place of Origin: Brooklyn, NY

Habitat: Manhattan Manhattan

Favorite Movie: 2001, A Space Odyssey

Favorite TV Show: The Simpsons

Favorite Dinosaur: Allosaurus

Favorite Sport: Baseball

Exercise: No, thank you.

Hobbies: Paper collage; writing short fiction; collecting comic bookso 

Distinguishing Features: Feathers

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Howard Zimmerman

Howard Zimmerman is currently Editor in Chief for Byron Preiss Visual Publications, Inc., a Manhattan-based book producer. He has been editor, project manager and art director of periodicals and books for  the past twenty-four years, following his interests in the areas of graphic arts and illustration, science fiction and science fact, and dinosaur paleontology. 

During the course of his career he has created and/or edited over 125 periodicals and 150 books for children and adults. A rare commodity in the book publishing world, Zimmerman works across category, producing children’s books as well as books for adults; fiction and non-fiction; science fact and science fiction; comic books, graphic novels, and art books. A sampling of the art books edited by Zimmerman include The Art of Miles Davis; The New City, by Lebbeus Woods; Harvey Kurtzman’s Visual History of the Comics; An Alphabet of Dinosaurs, and Dinosaurs! The Biggest, Baddest, Strangest, Fastest. In science fiction, he has edited a fifteen-book series of new Tom Swift adventures; Isaac Asimov’s Robot City series; I, Robot, The Illustrated Screenplay; two new Battlestar Galactica novels; and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy graphic novels. 

In the area of science fact, Zimmerman has edited The Ultimate Einstein, UFO’s and Aliens, and the following anthologies: The Ultimate Dinosaur; First Contact, The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence; The Scientific American Book of the Cosmos; and The Scientific American Book of Dinosaurs.

During the course of his career, Zimmerman has commissioned over one hundred cover paintings and over one thousand interior illustrations. He was project editor for The Ultimate Dinosaur (Bantam Books, 1993), a unique blend of science fact, science fiction and art. It introduced him to today’s leading paleontologists and paleo-artists, and rekindled his lifelong passion for the mysterious beasts of the Mesozoic. 

His next major dinosaur work was editing the best-selling An Alphabet of Dinosaurs (Scholastic, 1995), for which he commissioned twenty-six new paintings from artist Wayne Barlowe (the noted author-illustrator of Expedition and Barlowe’s Guide to Extraterrestrials), one for each letter of the alphabet. With 250,000 copies already in print, the book is now an “evergreen” for Scholastic’s science book club.

Zimmerman’s most recent dinosaur book was one that he both wrote and edited for Atheneum Books. Featuring an amazing cover painting by James “Dinotopia” Gurney, Dinosaurs! The Biggest, Baddest, Strangest, Fastest, was published in May, 2000. Rather than do another children’s book on dinosaurs with color art, he created an art book on dinosaurs, reproducing images across a giant 16” x 15” canvass ( the book is eight inches wide by 15 inches tall). It features beautiful and dramatic paintings of some of the newer finds, such as Amargasaurus, Giganotosaurus, Cryolophosaurs, Therizinosaurus  and Suchomimus. Following the latest information, some of them are painted with feathers, most notably by Luis Rey, Mark Hallett and Gregory Paul.

Later this year St. Martin’s Press will publish The Scientific American Book of Dinosaurs, a 450-page in-depth survey of the entire field, for which Zimmerman has once again been project editor. 

And just to make sure he keeps his hand in the field, Zimmerman is now hard at work on his next oversized art book for kids, called Beyond the Dinosaurs: Sky Dragons, Sea Monsters, Mega-mammals and other Prehistoric Beasts.  This one focuses on several different animal families, three of which lived concurrent with the dinosaurs: pterosaurs, marine reptiles, and therapsids. With a spectacular cover by gifted paleo-artist Jan Sovak, Beyond the Dinosaurs will be published by Atheneum in Spring, 2001.

Books by Howard Zimmerman

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Dinosaurs : The Biggest, Baddest, Strangest, Fastest
    by Howard Zimmerman, George Olshevsky. School & Library Binding (May 2000) 
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Ripley's Believe It or Not! : Great and Strange Works of Man (The Ripley's 100th Anniversary)
      by Howard Zimmerman(Editor), Elizabeth Henderson (Editor). Mass Market Paperback (November 1993) 
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Ripley's Believe It or Not! : Odd Places
      by Howard Zimmerman(Editor). Mass Market Paperback (May 1991) 
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Ripley's Believe It or Not! : Reptiles, Lizards and Prehistoric Beasts (Ripley's 100th Anniversary)
      by Howard Zimmerman, Elizabeth Henderson (Editor). Mass Market Paperback (May 1993) 
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FICTION

Bank Street Book of Science Fiction 
                   by Howard Zimmerman, Seymour Reit (Editor), Barbara Brenner (Editor) 
                     Our Price: $3.95 + $2.35 special surcharge 
                     Reading level: Ages 9-12
                     Paperback (September 1989) 
                     Pocket Books; ISBN: 0671631454 

The Bank Street Book of Fantasy
      by Howard Zimmerman, et al.  Out of Print
The Bank Street Book of Mystery
      by Howard Zimmerman, et al. Out of Print