Mark Pod­w­al has writ­ten and illus­trat­ed more than a dozen books, and has illus­trat­ed more than two dozen works by such authors as Elie Wiesel, Hein­rich Heine, Harold Bloom, and Francine Prose. King Solomon and His Mag­ic Ring, a col­lab­o­ra­tion with Wiesel, received the Sil­ver Medal from the Soci­ety of Illus­tra­tors, and You Nev­er Know, a col­lab­o­ra­tion with Prose, received a Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award. His art is rep­re­sent­ed in the col­lec­tions of the Met­ro­pol­i­tan Muse­um of Art, the Vic­to­ria and Albert Muse­um, Prague’s Nation­al Gallery, and the Jew­ish muse­ums in Berlin, Vien­na, Prague, and New York, among oth­er venues. Hon­ors he has received include being named Offi­cer of the Order of Arts and Let­ters by the French gov­ern­ment, the Jew­ish Cul­tur­al Achieve­ment Award from the Foun­da­tion for Jew­ish Cul­ture, and the Gra­tias Agit Prize from the Czech Min­istry of For­eign Affairs.