Molly Crabapple
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| Born |
Jennifer Caban September 13, 1983 Far Rockaway, Queens, New York City, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Fashion Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Fine art, illustration, writing |
| Notable work | Shell Game (2013), Week in Hell (2012), Drawing Blood (2015) |
| Website | Official website |
Molly Crabapple (born Jennifer Caban September 13, 1983) is an artist and writer living in New York. She is a contributing editor for VICE and has written for The New York Times, The Paris Review, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, CNN and Newsweek. Her published books include her illustrated memoir Drawing Blood (Harper Collins, 2015), Discordia (with Laurie Penny) on the Greek economic crisis, and the art books Devil in the Details and Week in Hell (2012). She regularly speaks to audiences around the world, at institutions such as The Museum of Modern Art, The London School of Economics, and Harvard and Columbia University. Her works are held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Barjeel Art Foundation and the New-York Historical Society.
Molly Crabapple was born Jennifer Caban on September 13 1983 in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York City, New York, on September 13, 1983 to a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, who was the grand-daughter of a Belarusian immigrant. Crabapple began drawing at the age of four with guidance from her mother, an illustrator who worked on toy product packaging. At age 12, Crabapple remembers herself as a "snotty goth moppet in a pair of Doc Martens, who blared Hole on her Walkman, drew headless cheerleaders, and read the Marquis de Sade in class". Her school diagnosed her with oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) and she was expelled from the seventh grade. In high school, Crabapple described herself as "gothy, dorky, and hated". She never liked her given name so she started using the name Molly Crabapple after a boyfriend suggested it reflected her character.
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