Schafer, Fred

Fred Schafer was born in the south of Germany and left home at the age of nineteen. A few years later he discovered the world of literature. Two of his books, The Short and Wonderful Life of Henry Hemingway and Travelling with Maria, provide insight into the early years of his life. The Mysterious Man completes the picture, although not entirely, because The Mysterious Man is a novel, not an autobiography. Or is it both? A book in which reality and fiction merge? At the age of thirty six, the author and his family moved to Australia, where they reside today. He has worked as an engineer and IT...