KEN KRIMSTEIN

official website:
http://www.kenkrimstein.com/

Ken Krimstein is a cartoonist, author, and educator whose work appears in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Chicago Tribune. His 2021 book, When I Grow Up – The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers has been named an NPR Best Book of the Year, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year and Top Ten Graphic Novel of 2021, and a Chicago Tribune Fall “Best Read.” His 2018 book The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt won the Bernard J. Brom­el Award for Biog­ra­phy and Mem­oir and was a final­ist for the Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award. He teaches at DePaul University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Clarkson-Potter published his collection of cartoons Kvetch as Kvetch Can — Jewish Cartoons in 2011. His humor writing has been in The New York Observer’s “New Yorker’s Diary” and humor websites, including McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Yankee Pot Roast, and Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood.