Scope and Contents
The Roz Chast papers contain correspondence, writings, artwork, printed material, production files, personal papers, photographs, realia, and other papers created by or relating to the life and work of Roz Chast. When possible, Chast's original folder titles have been repurposed as archival description.
Dates
- circa 1944-2021
Creator
- Chast, Roz (Author)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
The Roz Chast Papers is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Funke Literary, LLC on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, and the Jockey Hollow Fund, 2021.
Arrangement
This collection is organized into eight series: I. Cartoons, circa 1970-2020. II. Book projects, circa 1985-2015. III. Other artwork, 1970 - 2019. IV. Correspondence, 1980 - 2019. V. Journals and notebooks, 1969 - 2007. VI. Business papers, 1978 - 2020. VII. Personal papers, 1944 - 2021. VIII. Awards, 1998 - 2019.
Extent
79.77 Linear Feet (103 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Roz Chast
Roz Chast (born 1954) is an American cartoonist born in Brooklyn, New York. She is a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker magazine, where she began contributing in 1978. She regularly contributes to other periodicals, including Scientific American, The Village Voice, Redbook, and National Lampoon. Chast has written or illustrated over a dozen books for adults and children, including Unscientific Americans (Dial, 1982), Childproof (Hyperion, 1997), The Party, After You Left (Bloomsbury, 2004), Too Busy Marco (Atheneum, 2010), and Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (Bloomsbury, 2014). She illustrated Steve Martin’s The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z! (Flying Dolphin Press, 2007). Chast’s work for The New Yorker and other periodicals was collected in Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, and Health-Inspected Cartoons, 1978-2006 (Bloomsbury, 2008).
- Artists
- Caricatures and cartoons
- Caricatures and cartoons -- United States
- Cartoonists
- Cartoons (humorous images)
- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Comic books, strips, etc. -- United States -- 20th Century
- Graphic arts
- Graphic arts -- United States
- New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)
- Women artists
- Women artists -- United States
- Women artists -- United States -- 20th Century
- Title
- Guide to the Roz Chast Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- by Jim Fisher and Rosemary K. J. Davis
- Date
- October 2023
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
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New Haven, CT 06511
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