On my radar: Leanne Shapton’s cultural highlights

The Canadian writer and illustrator on her love of Ellsworth Kelly, her passion for proper doughnuts, and the wonders of King William Island

Illustrator, author and publisher Leanne Shapton grew up in Mississauga, Ontario, and attended McGill University and Pratt Institute. She has worked as art director on the New York Times op-ed page, and has contributed to Elle magazine and T: The New York Times Style Magazine. In 2003 she published her first book of drawings, Toronto. Her 2012 account of her early career as a trainee Olympic swimmer, Swimming Studies, won the 2012 National Book Critics Circle award for autobiography. Her book Women in Clothes, edited with Sheila Heti and Heidi Julavits, is out now, and her next book, Toys Talking, will be published by Particular Books in May.

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