W. G. Sebald

W. G. Sebald was born in Germany in 1944 and died in 2001. He is the author of The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, Austerlitz (named a Top 10 Book of the 21st Century by the New York Times), After Nature, On the Natural History of Destruction, Unrecounted, Campo Santo, and Silent Catastrophes among other publications.