Maria Hummel is a Draper Lecturer in Nonfiction at Stanford. Her translations of the once-banned GDR poet Uwe Kolbe are in the current issue of FIELD.

• October 2007: The Apache, The Thief, The Führer, and the Philosopher
  Karl May was one of the world’s most popular adventure writers, a devoted pacifist, and possibly responsible for the rise of global fascism.