Ten influential authors who came to the USA as immigrants

At the Christian Science Monitor Ben Frederick came up with a list of ten influential authors who came to the US as immigrants, including:

Art Spiegelman

Art Spiegelman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1948 to Polish Jewish parents who had fled their own country to escape the Holocaust. The family moved to the United States when Spiegelman was three. Spiegelman began creating underground comics at the age of 16. Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s he wrote a serial comic, "Maus," which was collected and published in two volumes in 1986 and 1991. "Maus" is a sort of self-aware recording of Spiegelman's interviews with his Jewish father about his experience during the Holocaust. Jews are drawn as mice, Germans as cats, and (controversially) Poles as pigs. "Maus," which became one of the first comic books ever studied seriously as literature, won Spiegelman two National Book Critics Circle Nominations and a Special Pulitzer Prize in 1992. Spiegelman is is also known as the artist who created the first New Yorker cover after 9/11, which later became the cover for another grouping of comics titled "In the Shadow of No Towers."

Read about another author on the list.

Spiegelman's Maus appears on Mary talbot's top ten list of graphic memoirs, Lev Grossman's top ten list of graphic novels, Danny Fingeroth's top 10 list of graphic novels, Meg Rosoff's top 10 list of adult books for teenagers, and Malorie Blackman's top ten list of graphic novels for teenagers.

--Marshal Zeringue