The Friends of the Central Library welcomes Rosalind “Roz” Chast to the 21st Season of the Rosamond Gifford Lectures Series.

Rosalind “Roz” Chast, born in 1954, is an American cartoonist and a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker. She grew up in Brooklyn and attended Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been published in many other magazines besides The New Yorker. Her books include Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, and Health-Inspected Cartoons of Roz Chast, 1978-2006. She also illustrated The Alphabet from A to Y, with Bonus Letter, Z, the best-selling children’s book by Steve Martin. Her most recent book Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? was a finalist for the National Book Award, Non- Fiction in 2014.