Roz Chast’s car­toons began appear­ing in the New Yorker in 1978, where she has since pub­lished more than one thou­sand. She is the author of the graph­ic mem­oirs Going Into Town (Win­ner of the New York City Book Award) and the #1 New York Times best­seller (100+ weeks) Can’t We Talk About Some­thing More Pleas­ant?, a Nation­al Book Crit­ics Cir­cle Award and Kirkus Prize win­ner and final­ist for the Nation­al Book Award; What I Hate: From A to Z; and her car­toon col­lec­tions The Par­ty, After You Left and The­o­ries of Every­thing, among oth­ers. She was award­ed the Har­vey Hall of Fame Award. She lives in Con­necti­cut and New York.