Di Fate studied at the Phoenix School of Design in New York City and received his MA in Illustration at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York.

He is the winner for the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist in 1979 and was ten times a nominee. 1987 he won the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction (the Skylark) which is presented by the New England Science Fiction Association NESFA.

He won the Rondo at The Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards at the 2003 ceremony for his work on the Monster-Mania Convention Program Cover.

Art collections

• Di Fate's Catalog of Science Fiction Hardware, (1980) ISBN 0-89480-127-9/0-89480-126-0 (pbk.)
• Infinite Worlds, (1998) ISBN 0-670-87252-0
• The Science Fiction Art of Vincent Di Fate, (2002) ISBN 1-85585-949-1

External links

• http://www.VincentDiFate.com - Artist's site
• Vincent di Fate Online
• The Locus Index to SF Awards: Di Fate, Vincent and Locus Interview (1998)