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My first view of this gentleman's work was on the cover of Publishers Weekly, seven years ago or thereabouts. Alfred A. Knopf was publishing a book of mine which they called The Golden Compass (the British title was Northern Lights), and they'd paid to have it featured on the cover of that magazine. I arrived in New York for a pre-publication tour, and there was my publisher holding up Publishers Weekly to show the title of my book against the background of the most amazingly beautiful painting, which, as I say, I'd never seen till that moment.
"Who did that?" I said.
"Eric Rohmann," said Simon Boughton proudly.
He might as well have said "Theophrastus von Sparkenpumpe." I'd never heard of him.
"Well, he's very good," I said.
"I'm glad you said that," said Simon, "because you're going to meet him tomorrow."
What would have happened if I'd hated it, I never found out. But there was no chance of my hating it. The cover designed by Mr. Rohmann (I'm going to call him that from now on, because he is very respectable now) showed the face of the young heroine, Lyra, as she sat on the back of the armored bear Iorek Byrnison, with her...
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