Maus

by Art Spiegelman, first published 1986

A story of a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father's story and history itself.

Documented challenge/ban history: Profanity, depiction of violence/suicide — Read about this book on Wikipedia · News-reported (McMinn County, TN school board, 2022)
  • 1992 — Wins a Pulitzer Prize Special Award, the first graphic novel to do so
  • 2022 — McMinn County, TN school board votes 10-0 (Jan 10) to remove it from the 8th-grade curriculum

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