About the Author

Peter Wortsman is the author of four books including the memoir/travelogue Ghost Dance in Berlin. He has written two stage plays and produced many translations from the German including Tales of the German Imagination, from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann, 2013. His travel writing has been selected five years in a row for The Best Travel Writing 2008-2012. He has won numerous awards and is a former Fellow of the Fulbright (1973) and Thomas J. Watson (1974) Foundations, and he was the Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in Spring 2010.