Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel is the author and illustrator of the New York Times bestselling graphic memoir Fun Home, which was Time magazine’s #1 Book of the Year and was adapted into a Tony Award–winning musical, as well as the graphic memoirs Are You My Mother? and The Secret to Superhuman Strength and the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. She has been named a MacArthur Fellow and Cartoonist Laureate of Vermont, among other honors.