Erwin Carle (Pseudonym Erwin Rosen; 7 June 1876 in Karlsruhe; 21 February 1923 in Hamburg) was a German Author and Journalist. Carle was enrolled in college in Munich. Being nothing but a prankster he had to terminate his studies. To save his family from this embarrassment he was sent to America being 19 at the time. There he quickly learned to stand on his own two feet, taking on any job he could find. He worked as farmhand in Texas, Apothecary, dishwasher, translator for the German Western Post in St. Louis, and as Journalist in San Francisco. In the year 1898 he found himself as part of the...