Norman Ohler is an award-winning German novelist, screenwriter, and journalist whose work has established an international readership across history, politics, culture, and literature. His New York Times bestseller Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich revealed the pervasive role of drugs in Nazi Germany and has been published in more than thirty languages.

His other books available in English include The Bohemians: The Lovers Who Led Germany’s Resistance Against the Nazis and Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age. He is also the author of four novels, including Die Quotenmaschine, recognized as the first German hypertext novel, and co-wrote Wim Wenders’s film Palermo Shooting. He lives in Berlin.

Marshall Yarbrough is a writer, translator, and musician based in New York City. For more than a decade, he has translated German-language fiction, nonfiction, and children’s literature, including works by Norman Ohler, Ulla Lenze, and Wolf Wondratschek. His translations have been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, HarperCollins, Penguin, New York Review Books Classics, and NorthSouth Books. He previously translated Ohler’s Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age.