Patricia Marx is a longtime New Yorker staff writer and a former writer for SNL and Rugrats. Her novels, Him Her Him Again the End of Him, and Starting from Happy were Thurber Prize finalists. She's the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her first children's book, Now Everybody Really Hates Me (illustrated by Roz Chast), was the first and only winner of the Friedrich Medal, an award made up by Patricia and named after her air conditioner. She has never slept in her life.
Roz Chast’s work has appeared in numerous magazines through the years, but she is most closely associated with the New Yorker. In addition to collections of her New Yorker cartoons, Chast has written and illustrated a wide range of books. Her first memoir, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? won a National Book Critics Circle Award and was a National Book Award finalist. She has two pet birds, who would prefer she never slept.
Patricia Marx has been contributing to
The New Yorker since 1989. She is a former writer for “Saturday Night Live” and “Rugrats,” and is the author of several books, including
Let's Be Less Stupid, Him Her Him Again The End of Him, and
Starting from Happy. Marx was the first woman elected to the
Harvard Lampoon. She has taught at Princeton, New York University, and Stonybrook University. She is recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Roz Chast grew up in Brooklyn. Her cartoons began appearing in the
New Yorker in 1978. Since then, she has published more than one thousand cartoons in the magazine. She has written and illustrated many books, including
What I Hate: From A to Z, and the collections of her own cartoons
The Party After You Left and
Theories of Everything. She is the editor of
The Best American Comics 2016 and the illustrator of Calvin Trillin's
No Fair! No Fair! and Daniel Menaker's
The African Svelte, all published in Fall 2016.
