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Marion Meade’s definitive biography explores his often-brutal childhood acting experiences, the making of his masterpieces, his shame at his own lack of education, his life-threatening alcoholism, and his turbulent marriages.

In the case of Maus, which details Spiegelman’s father’s experience of the Holocaust, it was “inappropriate language and nudity” that caused a Tennessee school board to remove the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel from its eighth-grade curriculum.

 A Promised Land, By Barack Obama A Promised Land isn’t the 44th president’s first attempt at a memoir. It’s his third. His first, Dreams of My Father, explored his life as a son of a Black Kenyan father and white American mother and the intersection of identity and race. His second, The Audacity of Hope, addresses discord in politics in an […]