Editorial cartoonist, essayist and graphic novelist TED RALL grew up near the Rust Belt city of Dayton, Ohio. He won a scholarship to Columbia University in New York, which expelled him for academic and disciplinary reasons during the long hot summer of 1984. He has since become a widely-syndicated cartoonist, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, twice the winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and the author of 20 books. He returned in Columbia in 1990, where he graduated with honors. Most recently, he has brought out a number of successful comics biographies from Bernie Sanders to Donald Trump. He lives in New York.