My First Wife

Bibliography and Acknowledgements

Barbara Hoffmeister: S. Fischer, der Verleger. Eine Lebensbeschreibung (Frankfurt, 2009)

Thomas Kraft: Jakob Wassermann (Munich, 2008)

Peter de Mendelssohn: ‘Jakob Wassermanns letztes Werk’ — afterword to Joseph Kerkhovens dritte Existenz (Munich, 1982)

Henry Miller: Maurizius Forever (San Francisco, 1946)

Jakob Wassermann: My Life as German and Jew (translated by S.N. Brainin, New York, 1933)

Julie Wassermann-Speyer: Jakob Wassermann und sein Werk (Vienna, 1923)

I would like to offer the Canton of Wallis/Valais my heartfelt thanks for awarding me a residency in Raron, where the translation was completed (though it seemed a shame not just to stare out of the window). Penguin were their usual brilliant selves — especially Louise Wilder, Anna Hervé and the wonderful Adam Freudenheim. Linden Lawson made valuable suggestions (I accepted them), as well as taking out many hundreds of evidently redundant commas that I left like crampons in the text.

M.H.