Author

Books by Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) was a German-Swiss novelist, poet, and Nobel laureate who became one of the best-selling German-language authors of the 20th century. Born to missionary parents with roots in both European Christianity and Indian spiritual culture, he underwent several spiritual and psychological crises, including psychoanalytic work with a disciple of C. G. Jung, that shaped his fiction. Steppenwolf (1927), written during a period of intense personal turmoil, became his most celebrated and controversial novel. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946 for the totality of his work.