Karl May
Novelist, Author
1842 – 1912
Who was Karl May?
Karl Friedrich May was a popular German writer, noted mainly for adventure novels set in the American Old West and similar books set in the Orient and Middle East. In addition, he wrote stories set in his native Germany, in China and in South America. May also wrote poetry, a play, and composed music; he was a proficient player of several musical instruments. Many of his works were filmed, adapted for the stage, turned into audio dramas or into comics. A highly imaginative and fanciful writer, May never visited the exotic places featured in his stories until late in life, at which point the clash between his fiction and reality led to a complete change in his work.
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- Born
- Feb 25, 1842
Hohenstein-Ernstthal - Also known as
- Karl Friedrich May
- Spouses
- Emma Pollmer
(1880/08/17 - 1903/01/14) - Klara Plöhn
(1903/03/30 - 1912/03/30)
- Emma Pollmer
- Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Died
- Mar 30, 1912
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on July 23, 2013
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