Studied at Minneapolis College of Art and Design (BFA Illustration, 1980). Craig is "a native of Mankato" from the <i>Commercial Arts</i> profile (CommArts.com) published not long after his first children's picture book, <i>The Light of Christmas</i> by R.P. Evans (2002), which is also the work for which Library of Congress identified the artist in 2002. "Daniel Craig" is the artist's LC canonical name. Special note: "Cannot be identified with Craig, Dan (Illustrator)". They may be one person, however. See .