Robert Papp

Robert Papp is an American illustrator, born and raised in Highland Park, New Jersey. He studied at the DuCret School of Art in Plainfield, New Jersey, where he trained under illustrator Peter Caras.

Over a career spanning more than three decades, he has illustrated book covers, magazine covers (including many issues of Cook's Illustrated), and national advertising campaigns for publishers in the United States and abroad, including Harlequin romance novel covers and children's books such as The Boxcar Children Mysteries. He has taught as adjunct faculty at Moore College of Art & Design.

In recent years he has also painted portraits and still lifes in a classical realist style, earning recognition from the Portrait Society of America and Oil Painters of America. He lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with his wife, fellow illustrator and children's author Lisa Papp.