Klaus Wagenbach is a publisher and a leading authority on Kafka. He was the first German-speaking researcher to access the author's papers and other primary sources in Czechoslovakia and Israel. His books on Kafka include Franz Kafka: The Early Years. Ewald Osers was a Czech-born translator an poet. Peter Lewis has had careers in university teaching and publishing and now works as a freelance translator and author. His recent translations include Asfa-Wossen Asserate's King of Kings: The Triumph and Tragedy of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia; Johannes Fried's Charlemagne: A Biography; and Gunnar Decker's Hesse: The Wanderer and His Shadow.