Marjane Satrapi was born in 1969 in Rasht, Iran. She grew up in Tehran, where she studied at the Lycee Francais before leaving for Vienna and then going to Strasbourg to study illustration. She currently lives in Paris, where she is at work on the sequel to Persepolis and where her illustrations appear regularly in newspapers and magazines. She is also the author of several children's books.

Persepolis , originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. The intelligent and outspoken only child of committed Marxists and the great-granddaughter of one of Iran's last emperors, Marjane bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country. More

- Sample pages (english)

• Another website about Persepolis
  
• Lots of reviews (english)
  
• Review @ ARD (german)
  
• Review @ intro.de (german)
  
• Marjane Satrapi on wearing a veil in France
  
• Marjane Satrapi @ radio npr
  
• Exhibition of Persepolis vol.1 in Stuttgart Germany
  
• A moment with ... author Marjane Satrapi