Michael Ende
worked as an actor, director, playwright,
and film critic as well as a children's book author. He published
many acclaimed children's books in his native Germany. The Neverending Story topped the best-seller lists
there for three years and went on to be translated into more than
thirty languages and made into a major motion picture.
Mr. Ende died in 1995.
RALPH MANHEIM
translated many notable works from the
German, including The Threepenny Opera,
by Bertolt Brecht. His translation of Tales
for Young and Old by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, is considered by
many to be the premier English edition of the Brothers Grimm.
Mr. Manheim died in 1992.
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