Author of On Book Design and coauthor of the Glossary of Typesetting Terms, Richard Hendel has been a book designer and art director at the University of Massachusetts Press, the University of Texas Press, Yale University Press, and the University of North Carolina Press; he now maintains a vigorous freelance career. His work has won Association of American University Presses, AIGA, Print magazine, Chicago Book Clinic, Leipzig Book Fair, and National Book awards, among others.