Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis,' dies at 56

Marjane Satrapi, the French-Iranian author and filmmaker best known for the autobiographical graphic novel and film Persepolis, died at 56, and her family said she "died of sadness" a little over a year after the death of her husband, Mattias Ripa. Persepolis chronicled Satrapi's childhood during the Iranian Revolution and she adapted it into an acclaimed animated film that broadened global interest in graphic memoir. Her blunt, visual storytelling helped bring Iranian women's stories into mainstream publishing and cinema, influencing a generation of cartoonists and filmmakers.