Art Spiegelman has been drawing cartoons since age 11. Creator of the Garbage Pail Kids and co-founder of the cutting-edge comix magazine RAW, in 1992, Spiegelman won the Pulitzer Prize for Maus: A Survivor's Tale, a graphic novel that depicts the experiences of a Holocaust survivor...

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Charles Spencer heads the Department of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. He studies the ancient cultures of Mexico and Venezuela...

David N. Baker is the Chair of the Department of Jazz Studies at Indiana University School of Music. He has composed more than 2,000 works. He plays the trombone and the cello...

JoAnne Bird is an artist. A member of the Dakota Sioux, she grew up on the Sisseton-Wahpeton Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Her paintings represent her Native American culture...

John Tauranac is a mapmaker (also known as a cartographer). He began making maps in the 1970s. He is one of the designers of the modern New York City subway map...

Mark Whitaker began his career as an intern at Newsweek magazine. Today, he is the magazine's editor...

Matt Davies is a Pulitzer Prize–winning editorial cartoonist for the Journal News in White Plains, New York....

Nancy Yoho, 47, makes maps for Rand McNally, the largest map provider in the U.S. She has been a mapmaker for 24 years. She is currently the vice president of Geographic Information Systems, which refers to the computer technology Rand McNally uses to make maps...

Naomi Shihab Nye is an award-winning Palestinian-American poet, essayist, and teacher. She is the author or editor of more than 20 volumes of poetry...

Ray Garibay is a statistician. He creates graphs and charts for the National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS). The service provides information about farming costs, livestock, and crops to the U.S. Department of Agriculture...

Seventeen-year-old Sonya Kitchell is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Her debut album Words Came Back to Me is a sophisticated mix of pop, jazz, and blues...

Stella Kramer has 20 years' experience as a photo editor. She has worked for People, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, and The New York Times. She is currently freelancing and giving lectures...

Stephen Buckley is the managing editor of The St. Petersburg Times in Florida...

Suzy Parker is an illustrator. For the past 25 years, she has created illustrations, graphs, charts, and informational graphics for USA Today, including the front page "Snapshots" graphic.