Note: The Union List of Artist Names (ULAN, getty.edu) gives birthyear 1947, preferred, and 1946, with one source for each (ULAN: 500089509):

• Bibliography of the History of Art / Bibliographie d'Histoire de l'Art, The Getty Center (Los Angeles, California) (preferred)
• Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art (London, England)

As of 2016-06-14 ULAN provides no other information relevant to this database. The Library of Congress (LCCN n79-128126) gives birthdate 1946-11-10 citing the British Library. The Flight of Dragons (Harper & Row, 1979) states about the illustrator (p. 137), "Wayne Anderson was born in England in 1946." Also he studied 4 years at Leicester College of Art, as early as ages 15-19, and he lives (1979) in a Leicestershire village with wife and three children. And he won the American Society of Illustrators gold medal for the children's book Ratsmagic (1976).