James Dean

Born 1957 in Fort Payne, Alabama, James Dean spent the majority of his early years watching his father, a self-taught artist, reproduce the art of the master's as a hobby. James, only in first grade, began drawing from cartoons such as Disney and Snoopy. Today, his art has sold in more than ninety galleries and shops across the United States, but AT Hun remains his home gallery. He has devoted his paintings to Pete the Cat, a scrawny black kitten James adopted in 1999 for years and has turned his natural love for cats into his life's work. James published his first adult book, The Misadventures of Pete the Cat, a history of his artwork, in 2006. He illustrated his first self-published children's book, Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes, in 2008, and the follow-up book, Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes, in 2011. Since then, he wrote more than 90 books. James used to live in Savannah, GA among other places, and moved recently to Athens, Ga with his cats and dog.