Milo Winter was born in Princeton, Illinois, USA. He studied at Chicago’s ‘School of the Arts Institute’, and published his first illustrated book, Billy Popgun (1912), a year after graduating. Winter lived in Chicago until the early 1950s, when he moved to New York City. He created illustrations for most of his adult life, and gained recognition by doing illustrations for ‘East Coast Publications.’
Arguably best-known for his animal drawings, Winter’s best works were his editions of Gulliver’s Travels (1912), Tanglewood Tales (1913), Arabian Nights (1914), Alice in Wonderland (1916) – for which he was but one of a long line of illustrators, and Aesop’s Fables (1919). He also provided illustrations for such popular tales as Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Alexandre Dumas’s The Three Musketeers, Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, the tales of Hans Christian Andersen, and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island.
Winter was a thoroughly resourceful and adaptive illustrator, and embraced new technologies, even later in life. When in 1946, for example, he created illustrations for Houghton Mifflin’s Animal Inn using the scratch board technique – they were an immediate, and great success. His illustrations covered the whole range of artistic subjects, such as stylised animals, humans, fantasy, adventure and science fiction. They are known for their masterful accuracy, humorous touches, personality, and attention to detail.
(source: https://www.pookpress.co.uk/project/milo-winter-biography/)