Leanne Shapton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Leanne Shapton

Canadian writer, designer and art director

Date of Birth: 25-Jun-1973

Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Profession: writer, graphic designer, illustrator

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Leanne Shapton

  • Leanne Shapton is a Canadian artist and graphic novelist, now living in New York City.
  • Her second work, Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry, was optioned for a film slated to star Brad Pitt and Natalie Portman.
  • The novel, which takes the form of an auction catalog, uses photographs and accompanying captions to chronicle the romance and subsequent breakup of a couple via the relationship's significant possessions or "artifacts". Shapton's first work, Was She Pretty?, was a nominee for the Doug Wright Award, a Canadian award for comics and graphic novels, in 2007.
  • It explored, via a series of line-drawn illustrations, the issues of relationship jealousy and insecurity as told through the imagined superior traits of the subjects' exes. Shapton is also an art director for newspapers and magazines.
  • Formerly associated with Saturday Night, Maclean's and the National Post in Canada, she has worked as art director for the op-ed page at The New York Times.
  • She has created hand lettering for a number of book covers, including Chuck Palahniuk's 2003 novel Diary.
  • She is also a partner in J&L Books.Her autobiographical book Swimming Studies (2012) deals with her youth as a national competitive swimmer, who made it as far as the 1988 and 1992 Canadian Olympic trials.
  • It is a "meditation on the gruelling years of training, the ways swimming is refracted through her memory now".
  • It won the National Book Critics Circle Award (Autobiography).Shapton created the "armpit sex drawing" for Spike Jonze's 2013 film Her. Guestbook, a collection of short writings and images, is slated for publication in 2019.

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