Leanne Shapton is an author, artist, and publisher based in New York City. She is the cofounder, with photographer Jason Fulford, of J&L Books, an internationally distributed nonprofit imprint specializing in art and photography books.

Shapton’s Swimming Studies, a collection of autobiographical sketches that explore the worlds of competitive and recreational swimming, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography and was long-listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 2012. She is coauthor of Women in Clothes, a New York Times bestseller.

She grew up in Mississauga, Ontario, and currently lives in New York City.

selected bibliography

Guestbook: Ghost Stories (2019)

Women in Clothes (2014)

Swimming Studies (2012)

Was She Pretty? (2006)

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online resources

Leanne Shapton’s website
“Ghost Story: An Interview with Shapton,” Columbia Journal, February 28, 2019
“Let It In: An Interview with Shapton,” Rookie, February 9, 2016
Studio Visit with Shapton, the Paris Review, February 16, 2012

Video: Shapton on her memoir, Swimming Studies