Ranger Read Program
About the Author: Art Spiegelman
Art Spiegelman is the creator of the Pulitzer Prize winning MAUS I: A Survivor's Tale: My father Bleeds History and MAUS II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Trouble Began. The two-volume work has been translated into 18 languages. In 1980 he and his wife, Francoise Mouly, co-founded Raw Magazine, the acclaimed and influential magazine of avant-garde comics and graphics which they co-edited until 1991.
From 1992 to 2002, Spiegelman was a staff artist and writer for The New Yorker, which published his powerful black-on-black 9/11 cover a few days after the event. His drawings and prints have been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the world. Spiegelman lives in lower Manhattan with his wife and their two children.
