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Maus was published in two volumes, in 19, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992. He first gained mainstream attention with his graphic novel, Maus, which tells the story of his father’s experience during the Holocaust. Spiegelman began his career as a cartoonist in the 1960s, working for underground and alternative comics publications.

Spiegelman attended the High School of Art and Design and later studied at the College of Arts and Architecture at Cornell University. His family moved to New York City when he was a young child. Spiegelman was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1948 to Polish Jewish parents who had survived the Holocaust. He is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel, Maus. Book EditionsĪrtie Spiegelman is an American cartoonist and graphic novelist. The book has also been adapted into a play, which has been performed in New York City, London, and Berlin.

Maus has been translated into multiple languages, including French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Hebrew. Artie Spiegelman’s use of animals to represent different groups of people (Jews are depicted as mice, Germans as cats, etc.) adds an additional layer of symbolism and meaning to the story. Maus is a unique and powerful story that gives readers a rare glimpse into the Holocaust from a first-hand perspective. The family eventually settled in New York City, where Artie grew up and became a cartoonist. In 1945, the war ended and Vladek and Anja were reunited with Artie, who had been sent to safety in America. They eventually found refuge with a Catholic family, who risked their own lives to save the Spiegelmans. In 1942, the Nazis began systematically rounding up Jews in Warsaw, and Vladek and Anja were forced into hiding. He was eventually released and returned to his hometown, where he married Artie’s mother, Anja. When the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, Vladek was sent to a concentration camp. The story is told through a series of interviews between Artie and Vladek, in which Vladek recounts his experiences during World War II. Maus tells the story of Artie Spiegelman’s father, Vladek, a Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust.