Dolphin Books

Laurie Dolphin is an award-winning author, publisher, book packager, and designer, and the founder of Authorscape, an independent book publishing studio in New York.

Across all her work; children's nonfiction, fine-art monographs, television histories, health and wellness titles, and celebrity-driven photography books, Laurie Dolphin has built a reputation for boutique, high-craft publishing, uniting strong visual design and editorial with deeply human, globally minded stories.

Through her imprint Dolphin Books, she develops high-craft, visually driven titles for the art, photography, pop-culture, and wellness worlds. She served as editor and publisher of The Last Dalai Lama? (2018), a deluxe art book companion to Mickey Lemle's documentary, featuring a foreword by the Dalai Lama that received the Gold IPPY for Best Book Arts Craftsmanship from the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards.

Dolphin is widely recognized in contemporary pop-culture publishing for her long-running collaboration with actor and photographer Norman Reedus. Through Dolphin Books and Big Bald Gallery, she has designed and published Reedus's photography and fan-art titles, including The Sun's Coming Up… Like a Big Bald Head (2013), Thanks for All the Niceness: Fan Art from Around the World (2014), Portraits from the Woods (2019), In Transit (2024) and she serves as Reedus's art curator.

As a book packager, Dolphin has created and shaped numerous notable projects, including Evidence: The Art of Candy Jernigan (Chronicle, 1999), This Is Today: A Window on Our Times (a visual history of NBC's Today Show, 2003), Flash Frames: A New Pop Culture (Watson-Guptill, 2002), Secrets of Longevity: One Hundred Ways to Live to be Hundred(Chronicle Books 2006, updated in 2025) Om Yoga: A Guide to Daily Practice with Cyndi Lee (Chronicle Books 2002) Giving Back with Meera Gandhi (2011) Her studio has also produced high-profile photography and art books such as GUZO by Gelila Bekele, celebrating rural Ethiopian communities, and Stardust: The Work and Life of Jeweler Extraordinaire Frédéric Zaavy. Her newest book, Rise with the Sun: Navajo Wisdom for a Modern Times, by Jake Singer (Union Square & Co, Hachette Books) is a modern dedication of Navajo wisdom, slated to be published in 2026.

In addition to her work as a packager and publisher, Dolphin is the author of several influential children's books: Georgia to Georgia: Making Friends in the USSR (1991); Neve Shalom/Wahat Al-Salam: Oasis of Peace (1993); Our Journey from Tibet: Based on a True Story (1997); and Magical Objects from Around the World (1997). These books, which focus on peace communities and cross-cultural understanding, have earned her the "Children's Book of the Year" award from Parents Magazine and the 1994 National Jewish Honor Book Award.

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