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NEW YORK (AP) — This fall, Art Spiegelman will receive an honorary National Book Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He feels honored, and a little worried. The unexpected pleasure of being cited by the National Book Foundation comes months after the jarring saga of his Pulitzer Prize-winning “Maus” being withdrawn by a Tennessee school board, which found Spiegelman’s graphic novel about the Holocaust inappropriate for the district's curriculum.

Art Spiegelman will receive an honorary National Book Award after his holocaust graphic novel "Maus" became a target of book banning.

Foundation says cartoonist 'captured world’s imagination' with graphic novels. His 'groundbreaking work has shown us the limitless possibilities for comics as a literary art form'

Spiegelman is the first cartoonist to win the DCAL medal from the National Book Foundation, which previously has awarded Toni Morrison, Philip Roth and Robert Caro among others.

NEW YORK (AP) -- This fall, Art Spiegelman will receive an honorary National Book Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He feels