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Vicki Baum (1888-1960) was born in Vienna, where she studied harp at the Vienna Academy for Music and the Performing Arts until marrying Max Prels, a journalist under whose name Baum's first short stories were published. The marriage was short-lived, and in 1912 she moved to Darmstadt, where she married the conductor Richard Lert and began writing as a career. Her first novel, Early Shadows- The Story of a Childhood, was published in 1920, and she went on to write more than thirty novels, ultimately becoming one of the world's bestselling authors. She is credited with inventing the ohotel novelo genre with Grand Hotel (first published as People in a Hotel), which became a Broadway hit in 1931. a Basil Creighton (1886-1989) was a writer and prolific translator of German authors. Among his translations are Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf, B. Traven's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and Alma Mahler's Gustav Mahler- Memories and Letters. a Margot Bettauer Dembo has translated works by Judith Hermann, Robert Gernhardt, Joachim Fest, Id n von HorvBth, Feridun Zaimoglu, Hermann Kant, and Anna Segher's novel Transit, which is available from NYRB Classics. She was awarded the Goethe-Institut Berlin Translator's Prize in 1994 and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize in 2003. Dembo also worked as a translator for two feature documentary films, The Restless Conscience, which was nominated for an Academy Award, and The Burning Wall. She lives in New York City. a Noah Isenberg is a professor of culture and media at the Eugene Lang College of the New School for Liberal Arts, where he teaches film history, theory, and criticism and also serves as the director of screen studies. He
A...spiritual motion picture of modern life. J. B. Priestley, The Book Society News [Told] with unusual skill and distinguished by an acute perception of minor detail. George Dangerfield, The Bookman One of the most perfectly constructed popular novels in modern literature. Frank N. Magill, editor of Masterplots, Revised Edition
