Jonny Sun Biography
Jonny Sun, born Jonathan Feng Sun, is a Canadian author and illustrator. He is best known for writing the illustrated novel “everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too”. Alongside his writing career, he is also a Ph.D. candidate in Urban Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Before joining MIT, Jonny studied at the University of Toronto and the Yale School of Architecture. He was born and raised in the city of Calgary in Alberta, Canada.
Career
Jonny Sun’s first book, ‘everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too” was published in June 2017. The novel featured a character he developed on twitter by tweeting as an alien trying to figure out life on earth among humanity. He created the character while he was in graduate school and he was undergoing great depression that had a great impact on his overall performance. The character offered him an opportunity to work through his mental situation.
His second book, “Gmorning, Gnite! Little Pep Talks For Me & You” was published in October 2018. He collaborated with Lin-Manuel Miranda to create a collection of affirmations drawn from Miranda’s Twitter feed and illustrated by Sun. Before its release, the book spent 10 weeks on The New York Times Bestseller List.
Besides writing books, Jonny’s works have been published in notable magazines and other publishers such as NPR, TIME Magazine, BuzzFeed, Playboy, GQ, and McSweeney’s. He has also been named as one of TIME Magazine’s 25 Most Influential People on the Internet. Before, as a playwright, Jonny Sun wrote several plays that have been featured in the Yale School of Drama, Factory Theater in Toronto, Hart House Theater, Theater Lab in Toronto, and the University of Toronto Drama Festival among others.
As an artist and illustrator, his work has been featured at New Haven ArtSpace, MIT, the Yale School of Architecture, and the University of Toronto.
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