Leanne Shapton

Leanne Shapton in Mississauga, Ontario is a Canadian artist and graphic novelist, now living in New York City. She is the art editor for the New York Review of Books. Her second work, Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry, was optioned for a film slated to star Brad Pitt and Natalie Portman. The novel, which takes the form of an auction catalog, uses photographs and accompanying captions to chronicle the romance and subsequent breakup of a couple via the relationship's significant possessions or "artifacts".