Artist, illustrator and author David Lance Goines was born in Grants Pass, Oregon. He attended the University of California at Berkeley but left to become an apprentice printer and, ultimately, a journeyman. In 1968 he founded Saint Hieronymus Press in the same Berkeley print shop where he had learned his trade. There he has remained, designing his work and printing it by both letterpress and photo-offset lithography. His distinctive work has been reproduced in numerous professional publications, including American Illustration, Communication Arts, Graphis, and Print. In addition to many solo and group shows, Goines' work is represented in both public and private collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York; the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He died in San Francisco, California.