Karl Friedrich May (1842-1912) is one of the best-selling German writers of all time, with about two million copies sold worldwide. He is best known for his 19th century travel and adventure novels set in the American Old West and in the Orient and Middle East, and many of his works were adapted for film, theatre, audio dramas, and comics. David Koblick (1916-2011), an American, retired from the electrical construction industry and resided with his wife Berta in Steyr, Austria. His second vocation was translating in the German and English languages.
Richard H. Cracroft, of Brigham Young University's English Department, is a specialist on European literature about the North American West.
