Laurie Dolphin is an award winning designer, author, and founder of Authorscape, a small independent book packager and publisher in New York. Through her imprint Dolphin Books, Laurie Dolphin published and was the editor of The Last Dalai Lama? (2018) a companion book to filmmaker Mickey Lemle’s award-winning documentary featuring a foreword by The Dalai Lama. The Last Dalai Lama? book was the recipient of the Best Book Arts Craftsmanship award from the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards.

Dolphin has worked on numerous projects in the pop culture, art, photography, and health and wellness genres. Notable projects include Evidence: The Art of Candy Jernigan (1999), This Is Today (a history of NBC’s The Today Show) (2003), Giving Back (2011) with Meera Gandhi and Flash Frames: A New Pop Culture (2002), a book highlighting Flash art from the internet co-edited with her husband Stuart S. Shapiro and featuring an introduction by Stan Lee. In 2016, Laurie Dolphin designed and published a special edition book of photography by Gelila Bekele called “GUZO,” which documents the daily life of tribes in rural Ethiopia. In 2020, Dolphin designed the beautiful art book: STARDUST: The Work and Live of Jeweler Extraordinaire Frédéric Zaavy

Most recently, Dolphin has partnered with actor and photographer Norman Reedus, to design and publish a book of his photography called The Sun’s Coming Up Like A Big Bald Head (2013) a fan art compilation called Thanks For All The Niceness: Fan Art From Around The World (2014), Portraits From the Woods (2019). They are partners in Big Bald Gallery, an online art gallery. She is also the art curator for actor Norman Reedus.

In addition to her work as a designer and publisher, Dolphin is the author of several children’s books including Georgia To Georgia: Making Friends in the USSR (1991), Neve Shalom Wahat Al-Salam: Oasis of Peace (1993) and Our Journey From Tibet (1997).Her work as an author often focuses on peace projects in conflict zones that aim to teach children about diversity and peace. She received the “Children’s Book of the Year Award” from Parents Magazine and won the 1994 National Jewish Honor Book Award.

Dolphin Books, the publishing imprint of Authorscape Inc., is best known for a diverse publishing pro- gram-specializing in limited edition fine art and photography. Our unique and creative approach to publishing has established our reputation in the industry, helping us build a client list that includes some of the most well known figures in art and entertainment. Our innovative book launches gain significant press and help bring the art of high quality, boutique publishing into the mainstream.

Dolphin Books has designed and produced original books in association with world renowned publishing com- panies that include: Sterling, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Chronicle Books, Yahoo, Mapquest, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Random House, Andrews McMeel, Harper Design, and Barnes & Noble.