Wendell Minor is well known in the publishing industry for the paintings he has done for twenty-five award winning picture books for children, two of which he has authored. Recently he re-illustrated Jack London's "The Call of the Wild," a 50th anniversary edition of "Shane" by Jack Schaefer, "The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane, and most recently, the Katharine Lee Bates poem/song "America the Beautiful."

"Wendell Minor: Art For the Written Word," an anthology of twenty-five years of Minor's book cover art, with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize winning historian David McCullough, was published in September of 1995 by Harcourt Brace and Company. Minor's work has been exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions at The Art Institute of Chicago and The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut. His paintings can be found in the permanent collections of many museums, including the Norman Rockwell Museum.

Minor lives in Washington, Connecticut with his wife and business partner, Florence.