Liza Donnelly is a writer and cartoonist for The New Yorker, where she has been drawing cartoons and writing about culture for forty years. She has been a contributor to CBS News and CNN, as well as The New York Times and The Washington Post. Donnelly’s popular TED Talk has been translated into 42 languages and viewed more than 1.5 million times. She has delivered talks at the United Nations and around the world.
Donnelly is the innovator of a digital form of visual journalism known as live-drawing. For CBS News, CNN, and The New Yorker, she has covered major news events, including presidential debates, major trials, and the Academy Awards. Donnelly is the author or editor of eighteen books, most notably VERY FUNNY LADIES, a history of women cartoonists at The New Yorker. She has curated exhibitions of international cartoonists in the U.S. and abroad.
Her solo exhibition, COMIC RELIEF, was held at the Norman Rockwell Museum in 2020. Donnelly is a Visiting Scholar at Vassar College and a Distinguished Athena Leadership Fellow at Barnard College. She is the recipient of an honorary PhD from University of Connecticut and has received multiple awards for her work. Her cartoons are held in the Library of Congress Prints Collection, the Society of Illustrators Museum of Illustration, and private collections around the world. Donnelly is a member of PEN America, the Authors Guild, and the Society of Illustrators, and serves on the board of the Norman Rockwell Museum.