Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) spent World War I in Switzerland.
After the war and a psychological crisis, he removed himself to the
small town of Montagnola, where he created his best-known works. He
received many important honors, including the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1946.
Joachim Neugroschel (1938–2011) translated numerous books
from French, German, Italian, Russian, and Yiddish. The winner of
three PEN translation awards and the French-American Foundation
translation prize, he translated Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice, E.
T. A. Hoffman and Alexadre Dumas’s Nutcracker and Mouse King, and
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s Venus in Furs for Penguin Classics. He
also compiled several anthologies including Great Tales of Jewish
Fantasy and the Occult, A Dybbuk and Other Tales of the
Supernatural, and The Golem: A New Translation of the Classic Play
and Selected Short Stories.
Jessica Hische is a letterer, illustrator, typographer, and
web designer. She currently serves on the Type Directors Club board
of directors, has been named a Forbes Magazine "30 under 30" in art
and design as well as an ADC Young Gun and one of Print Magazine’s
"New Visual Artists". She has designed for Wes Anderson,
McSweeney's, Tiffany & Co, Penguin Books and many others. She
resides primarily in San Francisco, occasionally in Brooklyn.
Winner of the 2012 Fifty Books/Fifty Covers show, organized by
Design Observer in association with AIGA and Designers & Books
Winner of the 2014 Type Directors Club Communication Design
Award
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