The San Francisco Public Library In Its Own Words

by Wendy MacNaughton

"In May of 2011, the San Francisco Public Library invited illustrator Wendy MacNaughton to spend a month at the main branch getting to know the people of the library -- the librarians, guards, patrons and staff -- and to tell their story. The result is this illustrated documentary on the library told exclusively through drawings and the subjects' own words"--P. [1].

Genres: Nonfiction, Art

44 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

About the author

Wendy MacNaughton is an illustrator and a graphic journalist based in San Francisco. Her documentary series Meanwhile tells the stories of communities through drawings and the subject's own words, and is being published as an anthology by Chronicle Books in 2014. She's illustrated two other forthcoming books: Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology, by Caroline Paul and Wendy MacNaughton (Bloomsbury, 2013) and The Essential Scratch & Sniff Guide to Wine, by Richard Betts (Houghton Mifflin, 2013).

She has degrees in fine art/advertising and social work from Art Center College of Design and Columbia University. When they let her, she likes to talk with students at Art Center College of Design, and she is an artist in residence at Intersection for the Arts.

Source: wendymacnaughton.com.

Reviews

[Rachel · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is tiny and sweet and just a lovely little book about a place!