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Lynda Barry (b. 1956)

Lynda Barry (b. 1956) is a cartoonist, novelist, and teacher of writing. She was born in Wisconsin but spent most of her adolescence in Seattle, where she supported herself at age 16 as a janitor. As a student at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, Barry began drawing Ernie Pook's Comeek, the comic strip for which she is perhaps best known. Her first novel, Cruddy (2000), was about a teenager and her troubled family life "in the cruddiest part of town."