Art Spiegelman
The Pulitzer-prize winning author says his Holocaust memoir’s raw telling, seen by a Tennessee school board as objectionable, was crucial to his story’s authenticity and believability.
“It’s not for third-graders. This is for eighth-grade minds who’ve already had Holocaust education beginning in fifth grade—in the state of Tennessee, that’s when we begin,” said Michael Dzik of the Jewish Federation of Greater Chattanooga.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning book tells the story of Art Spiegelman’s parents, who lived in Poland in the 1940s, and their time in Auschwitz.
