Biographie
Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer influenced by Diego Rivera and Goya's The Disasters of War. She authored Brothers of the Gun, an illustrated collaboration with Syrian war journalist Marwan Hisham, which was recognized as a NY Times Notable Book and long-listed for the 2018 National Book Award. Her memoir, Drawing Blood, received widespread acclaim.
Her reportage has appeared in the New York Times, New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, The New Yorker, and Rolling Stone. She is a fellow at the New America Foundation and has served as the 2019 artist-in-residence at NYU's Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, the Brooklyn Library's 2018 Katowitz Radin Artist-in-Residence, and a Yale Poynter Fellow. Currently, she is a New America 2020 Fellow and a 2020 Bard Fellow at the Brooklyn Public Library.
Crabapple began her journalism career sketching the front lines of Occupy Wall Street, later covering stories with both words and art, including Lebanese snipers, labor struggles in Abu Dhabi, Guantanamo Bay, the US border, American prisoners, Greek refugee camps, and the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. She once confronted Donald Trump in Dubai regarding the exploitation of workers building his golf courses. As an award-winning animator, she has developed a new form of live-illustrated explainer journalism, collaborating with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jay-Z, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and The ACLU. Her animations are permanently displayed at The Equal Justice Initiative's Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama.
She has spoken globally, from Jakarta to Beirut, São Paulo to Ramallah, Mumbai to Paris, at universities such as Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and The London School of Economics, as well as museums including The Brooklyn Museum and The Guggenheim. Her artwork is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the United States Library of Congress, and the New York Historical Society.
