About

LISA BROWN is a New York Times bestselling illustrator, author and cartoonist. Her award-winning picture books include: The Airport Book, How to Be, Mummy Cat by Marcus Ewert, Emily’s Blue Period by Cathleen Daly, and The Two Mutch Sisters by Carol Brendler. She has collaborated on three books with author Lemony Snicket: The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming, 29 Myths on the Swinster Pharmacy, and Goldfish Ghost, and is the creator of the “Baby Be of Use” series of board books for McSweeney’s, (including the absolutely essential Baby Mix Me a Drink). Her first graphic novel, The Phantom Twin, and Long Story Short, her first collection of comics, both came out in 2020, right before the world locked down. Therefore, her latest book for young children is The Hospital Book, published in March, 2023. 

Lisa is married to the novelist Daniel Handler and lives with him, their teenager, and their ridiculous little dog in an old house on a hill in San Francisco, where she teaches in the illustration department of the California College of the Arts, and chairs the board of 826 Valencia. In her down time she drinks coffee.

For news and events, check out Lisa’s social media.

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