Eric Hanson

Biography

Eric Hanson is an illustrator and writer whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Atlantic, and the Paris Review, among other publications. His art has been recognized by organizations such as Communication Arts, the Society of Publication Designers, and American Illustration. He is the author of A Book of Ages: An Eccentric Miscellany of Great & Offbeat Moments in the Lives of the Famous & Infamous, Ages 1 to 100 (Random House, 2008).

See Work

ON BECOMING / Fall 2020

Many Rights, Few Responsibilities

By Ru Freeman ,  Illustration by Eric Hanson

I became a citizen of the United States on the eve of the invasion of Iraq, holding my newborn daughter.