Ernst Pawel

Ernst Pawel (January 23, 1920 – August 16, 1994) was a German American biographer and translator who worked primarily for New York Life Insurance from 1946 to 1982. Pawel wrote about the Holocaust and Sigmund Freud in three books from 1951 to 1960. From 1954 to 1965 Pawel translated books by Georges Simenon and Lotte Lehman.

During the 1980s, Pavel released biographies of Franz Kafka and Theodor Herzl. Following his death in 1994, Pawel's biography of Heinrich Heine and his own memoir were released. ''The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka'' won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography and was nominated for the American Book Award for Nonfiction in 1984. Provided by Wikipedia
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    The nightmare of reason : a life of Franz Kafka / by Pawel, Ernst

    Published 1984
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    The nightmare of reason : a life of Franz Kafka / by Pawel, Ernst

    Published 1984
    Book