Roz Chast
Rosalind "Roz" Chast is an American cartoonist and a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker.
She grew up in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, the only child of an assistant principal and a high school teacher.
Her earliest cartoons were published in C
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Rosalind "Roz" Chast is an American cartoonist and a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker.
She grew up in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, the only child of an assistant principal and a high school teacher.
Her earliest cartoons were published in Christopher Street and The Village Voice. In 1978 The New Yorker accepted one of her cartoons and has since published more than 800. She also publishes cartoons in Scientific American and the Harvard Business Review.
Chast is a graduate of Midwood High School in Brooklyn. She first attended Kirkland College (which later merged with Hamilton College) and then studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and received a BFA in painting in 1977. She also holds honorary doctorates from Pratt Institute and Dartmouth College, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
She is represented by the Danese/Corey gallery in Chelsea, New York City.
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