A rediscovered classic, originally published in 1938—and now an international bestseller. When it first appeared in magazine in 1938, became in immediate social phenomenon and literary sensation. Published in book form a year later and banned in Nazi Germany, it garnered high praise in the United States and much of Europe. A series of fictional letters between a Jewish art dealer living in San Francisco and his former business partner, who has returned to Germany, is a haunting tale of enormous power and enduring impact. Kathrine Kressmann Taylor (1903-1996) was an undiscovered writer before the 1938 publication of . She won her first writing award at the age of eleven, and with the prize money bought herself a set of . Taylor went on to write three books and more than a dozen short stories, one of which was included in . For nineteen years, she was a professor of creative writing and journalism at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, where she was the first woman to earn tenure.