| Author Bios |
Short Biographies of our Authors
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| Evelyn Grill |
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Evelyn Grill was born in 1942 in Upper Austria, and studied law
in Linz. She has lived in Freiburg, Germany, since 1986. Her
books include Winterquartier (1993), Wilma (1994),
Vanitas (2005), Der Sammler (2006) and Schoene Künste
(2007). Winterquartier has been translated into English
and published as Winter Quarters, Ariadne Press. |
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| Alfred G. Meyer |
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Alfred G. Meyer, 1920-1998, received
his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1950. He taught political
science at Michigan State University from 1960 to 1966, and at the
University of Michigan from 1966 to 1990. He was a noted authority
on Marxism, Leninism, and the Soviet political system, and the
author of a number of respected works in the fields of Russian and
East European studies and communist political theory. These included
Marxism: The Unity of Theory and Practice (1954), Leninism (1957),
Communism (1960), The Soviet Political System (1965), and
The Feminism and Socialism of Lily Braun (1987). |
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| Hajo G. Meyer |
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Hajo G. Meyer was born in
Bielefeld, Germany, in 1924. In 1939, at the age of 14, he fled
alone to Holland to escape the Nazi regime. After the Germans
occupied that country, he was captured by the Gestapo in 1944, and
survived ten months in Auschwitz. After the war, he studied
theoretical physics and became a researcher at Philips Research
Laboratories in Eindhoven. He received his Ph.D. in 1956, and in
1974 became managing director of the lab. Retiring in 1984, he
became a maker of violins, selling his instruments to professional
musicians. Since 2002 he has devoted himself full-time to his work
as a publicist and essayist. |
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| Stefan Garris Meyer |
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Stefan
Garris Meyer earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Rutgers
University in 1996. He is the author of The Experimental
Arabic Novel, The Lost Slipper of Soul, and Rest
Points in Eternity, and the founder of Spiritual Traveler Press
and G. Meyer Books. His body of work to date bears comparison
with T. E. Lawrence’s three major pieces of writing: Crusader
Castles, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, and The Mint.
With his last two works, he has claimed a place as a contemporary
writer of courage and spiritual stature. |
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| Mario Wirz |
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Mario Wirz was born in Marburg in
1956 and has worked as an author, director, and actor. In 1985, he
moved to Berlin to be a free-lance writer. His earlier works include
several plays and collections of poems, including Und Traum zerzaust
dein Haar (And Dreams Tousle Your Hair), 1982, and Ich Rufe die
Wölfe (I Call the Wolves), 1993. |