Author Bios
Short Biographies of our Authors
 
Evelyn Grill Evelyn Grill
 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.
 
Alfred G. Meyer Alfred G. Meyer
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).
 
Hajo G. Meyer Hajo G. Meyer
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.
 
Stefan Garris Meyer Stefan Garris Meyer
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.
 
Mario Wirz Mario Wirz
 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.