Chip Kidd was born in Reading, PA in 1964. He lives in New York City and Stonington, CT.
"Snappy....Kidd invents a banter-filled workplace worthy of Howard
Hawks, gleefully tweaks the old-guard panic of the Mad Men-era ad
world, and even throws in a few typographic bells and
whistles...A-" - Entertainment Weekly
"Arresting and hip....captivating." - Christian Science Monitor
"The advertising business and the [Milgram psychology] experiment
are linked in this swift, often funny and always intelligent book."
- Hartford Courant
"Amusing and thought-provoking." - New York Newsday
"Iconic graphic designer Kidd coins a new genre--stylized
sentimentalism (think AMC's Mad Men without the bile)--to tell this
tale of a creative naif's aesthetic and emotional coming of age. .
. . Grade: A" - Washington Post
"Kidd smoothly mixes the reality of Milgram's rather sinister work
with the fiction of Happy's new life in advertising....Even more
impressive than the blend of fiction and fact is the way that "The
Learners" shifts from raucous ad office comedy to the tragic
repercussions of the Yale experiments." - Connecticut Post
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"Ingenious....The Learners seduces the reader through a deceptive
manipulation of form and content: It's a matryoshka, or stacking
doll, that hides a startling, dark content. By the time we get to
the end of the first of its three parts, we are dropped into a
creepy, disturbing, sociopolitical satire." - Philadelphia
Inquirer
"The novel stays firmly comic: quick and droll and sly. And, like
Kidd's previous novel, the most sparkling pages are when Happy and
his colleagues discuss how to draw a straight line, or the
ironically invisible power of typography." - St. Louis
Post-Dispatch
"Kidd shares his deep knowledge of graphic design with his readers
in inventive and generally delightful ways....His wit, astute
observation, and compassion make The Learners that rarest of
offerings--[an] immensely enjoyable novel." - Boston Globe
''The Learners is witty and well observed as an office comedy, as a
meditation on art and as a story of self-discovery...the book is
packed with sharp insights....Kidd ultimately is a brilliant,
self-aware designer and a clever writer." - New York Times Book
Review
"Kidd's novel is slyly funny as well as starkly emotional, and
never overwritten or melodramatic. He has a Dickensian flair for
giving his characters names that somehow suit them, and yet gives
them a depth and poignancy that resonates long after the last
page." - Wichita Eagle
"Always intriguing, this is a strange mixture of the frivolous and
the disturbing." - Financial Times (London)
"[Chip Kidd's] fiction is just as smart and lively as the covers,
typography and layout of the books he designs...swift, often funny
and always intelligent." - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
"[Chip Kidd's] fiction is just as smart and lively as the covers,
typography and layout of the books he designs, which include this
one." - Newport News Daily Press
"[The Learners] offers an enjoyable introduction to another world
and a major writing talent....genuinely interesting...sympathetic
characters, funny lines, a firm grasp of time and place, and a plot
that makes surprising shifts without ever losing its way....[Chip
Kidd is] an author to watch." - USA Today
"Chip Kidd, in his second novel, The Learners, repeats and evolves
the typographical high jinks he gave us in The Cheese
Monkeys....Kidd's quirky approach to life is endearingly
recognizable in its expression." - Los Angeles Times
"Funny, insightful and even educational...quite witty." - The Daily
Yomiuri (Tokyo)
"Required reading." - New York Post
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