As an editor at Pantheon Books in the 1980s, Tom Engelhardt accepted the proposal that became Maus. He writes: “I still remember [Art Director Louise Fili] telling me that it had already been rejected by every publisher imaginable. In those days, that was, I suspect, something like a selling point for me. Anyway, I took the couple of teeny chapters and the proposal home—and all these years later, I still recall the moment when I decided I had to put Spiegelman’s book out, no matter what.”