Ken Krimstein
Evanston, IL
Nonfiction
Ken Krimstein is a New Yorker Magazine cartoonist and a graphic novelist and historian. His most recent book, "When I Grow Up - The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers" was named an NPR Best Book of the Year in 2021, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year and a Chicago Tribune Fall "Best Read.” His 2018 graphic biography "The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt - A Tyranny of Truth" has been translated into seven languages and was winner of the Bernard J. Brommel Award for Biography & Memoir, named one of the Best Graphic Novels of the Year by Forbes, a National Jewish Book Award Finalist and a Finalist for the Chautauqua Prize. In addition to his cartooning and graphic novels, he has published humor in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The New York Observer, and graphic reporting for The New York Times. He has had one person art shows at the Goethe Institut in Washington DC, and the Spertus Institute in Chicago. He has held full-time positions on faculty at DePaul University and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His next book, a graphic biography entitled "Einstein in Kafkaland" will be published in 2024.