Jim Shepard is the author of six novels and two short-story collections, including most recently Love and Hydrogen: New and Selected Stories and Project X. He teaches at Williams College and in the Warren Wilson MFA program. Ron Hansen is the author of numerous books, including A Stay against Confusion: Essays on Faith and Fiction and Atticus, a National Book Award finalist. He teaches writing and literature at Santa Clara University.

"Jim Shepard wrote a fictional biography of F. W. Murnau, a strange breed of man who made compelling art from life and whose life, it turns out, makes compelling art."--Small Spiral Notebook

"Shepard has so thoroughly mastered the idiom and feel of the period that we seem to be inside a young Thomas Mann novel."--Kirkus

"Mordantly funny and moving."--Entertainment Weekly

"In Nosferatu, F. W. Murnau becomes his own subject--one of the undead, hollowed out and sucked dry by the love he has betrayed. The life, again, informs, deforms, and becomes the work."--New York Times Book Review

Publisher: Bison Books

Pub date: 2005-09-01

Length: 216 pages