Edward Winsor Kemble (January 18, 1861 – September 19, 1933), usually cited as E. W. Kemble, was an illustrator. He is known best for illustrating the first edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He was elected to The Lambs in 1895 as a Professional member. He drew many illustrations for the Club, and wrote verses for Club functions.
Kemble was born in Sacramento, California. In 1875, he was enrolled at a boarding school in Philadelphia, which was a center of artistic activity. His artistic talent was such that he was a successful contributor to periodicals by 1881. He became the major political cartoonist for the New York Daily Graphic while receiving his only formal artistic training at the Art Students League of New York.
When Life magazine was founded in 1883, Kemble became a frequent contributor to its early issues. He was a staff political cartoonist for Collier’s from 1903 to 1907, for Harper’s Weekly from 1907 to 1912 before returning to Collier’s, and for Leslie’s Weekly and Judge in the late 1910s. Scores of Lambs were employed by these publications.
His work attracted the attention of Mark Twain, who employed Kemble to illustrate The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
E.W. Kemble died in Ridgefield, Connecticut, in 1933, aged 72. He is interred in Maple Shade Cemetery in Ridgefield.