A Penguin Essential a day: Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway

Artist: Leanne Shapton

Leanne Shapton was born in Canada and lives and works in New York City. She is the co-founder of J&L Books, a non-profit imprint specializing in art and photography books, and is the author of Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry, The Native Trees of Canada and Was She Pretty?. Shapton has contributed work to The New York Times, The New Yorker, Elle magazine and The Woodland Trust. She has recently completed Swimming Studies, a book about life as a swimmer, for The Penguin Press. leanneshapton.com