Peter Arthur Alsberg was born in 1960, and died in 2001 at the age of 41. A New York native, he grew up in Englewood and Tenafly, N.J. After graduating from the University of Maryland in 1982, he spent several years doing freelance illustration work, including sketching legumes for the Agriculture Department. Mr. Alsberg also did illustrations for The Fearless Frying Cookbook, published by Workman in 1997, and freelance work for Business Week and Macworld magazines. He was the art director of The Washington Post’s Outlook section.
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