https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/concordmonitor/name/steven-lindblom-obituary?id=51823901
(with photo of Lindblom in a deep-sea diving suit)

Warner, NH - Steven Winther Lindblom was born in Minneapolis, MN in 1946 and soon moved to North Haven, CT. He spent much of his youth traveling with family and lived in England, France, Switzerland, India, and California. In 1962, Steve was Connecticut State Junior Bicycling Champion.

Steve attended St. John's College in Maryland and then transferred to Rhode Island School of Design, where he met his life partner, True Kelley. After graduation, they worked as children's book authors and illustrators in Boston. Many books that Steve wrote and illustrated were award winning. Steve and True built a home in Hampton Falls, NH. In 1983, their daughter Jada was born. They moved to a "solar gothic" house that Steve designed and built in Warner.

Steve had great affection for Warner and was active in the community. Steve learned to fly airplanes and invented and manufactured an aviation repair tool while also freelance writing on aviation topics. He rediscovered a fascination with scuba diving and wrote and published several books on advanced diving through his company Airspeed Press. Steve's manual, The Oxygen Hacker's Companion, is considered a classic of the diving world.

Steve was perhaps best known for his sense of humor, clever creativity, and vast knowledgeability. His favorite pastimes included rowing his Alden ocean shell, working on large rusty things like his Ford 8N, reading, hiking, practicing Tai Chi, and enjoying good seafood and pastries. From touring Europe in 1970 on a 1952 Vincent motorcycle to camping in the Caribbean, Steve and True shared a lifelong love of travel.

Steve passed away on May 4th, 2023 in Concord, NH from cancer and Lewy Body Dementia...

(snip)

https://memorialsource.com/memorial/steven-lindblom
(a few dozen photos, plus remembrances)

Excerpts:

7/16/23
Steve introduced me to Dave Van Ronk (1964) and absinthe (homemade), more recently.

8/03/23
Steve wrote a book for kids about engines. After I read it, he asked me if I got the joke on page ##.
I looked and didn't get it.
"It's an antique updraft carburetor on a Kohler!"
-David Caruthers

From "Contemporary Authors":

"How to Build a Robot was selected as one of the 'Best Books of the Year' by the Bank Street College of Education, 1985."

https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=steven%20lindblom&ch_sort=t&cm_sp=sort-_-SRP-_-Results&sortby=7
(book covers - four pages' worth)

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/103597.Steven_Lindblom
(reader reviews - only three of the books have reviews)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZzzmPVgIsk
(read-aloud of "The Mouse's Terrible Halloween" - there's a flying saucer involved - it's almost 9 minutes)

His widow, True Kelley, wrote and illustrated "Who Was Pablo Picasso?" in 2009. (Before then, she illustrated three other books in that series and wrote five more after 2010.)

WRITINGS:

JUVENILE

(With wife, True Kelley) The Mouse's Terrible Christmas, illustrated by Kelley, Lothrop (New York City), 1978.
("Holiday havoc is a family tradition at the Mouses', complete with a chimney disaster, a sticky Santa, disgruntled carolers, and a living-room blizzard.")

The Fantastic Bicycles Book, Houghton (Boston), 1979.
(With Kelley) The Mouse's Terrible Halloween, illustrated by Kelley, Lothrop, 1980.

Let's Give Kitty a Bath, illustrated by Kelley, Addison-Wesley (Reading, MA), 1982.
("Two children try to give Kitty a bath and a merry chase ensues when Kitty tries to hide from them.")

How to Build a Robot, Crowell (New York City), 1985.
("Discusses the nature and history of robots and the technological requirements of making them move, sense, and 'think.' ")

Let's Go Shopping, Western Publishing (New York City), 1988.
Tiny Dinosaurs, Western Publishing, 1988.
Snakes and Reptiles, Western Publishing, 1989.
Airplanes and Other Things That Fly, Western Publishing, 1990.
Flying Dinosaurs, Western Publishing, 1990.

Fly the Hot Ones, Houghton, 1991.
("Describes what it is like to fly eight different types of airplanes representing the radical extremes of airplane flying, including the Piper J-3 Cub, Quicksilver Sport Ultralight, and Grumman F-14 Tomcat Navy Carrier Interceptor.")

ILLUSTRATOR

Bernie Zubrowski, Messing around with Water Pumps and Siphons: A Children's Museum Activity Book, Little, Brown (Boston), 1981.
Ross Olney, The Internal Combustion Engine, Lippincott (Philadelphia), 1982.
Seymour Simon, Computer Sense, Computer Nonsense, Lippincott, 1984.
(With Kelley) Niles, Gregory, and Douglas Eldredge, The Fossil Factory, Addison-Wesley, 1989.

Forgot to say that he had three entries in the "Something About the Author" encyclopedias.