The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

Now in his fifty-seventh year, Emil Ludwig has lived independently in the country in Tessin, Switzerland, ever since he was twenty-six. He calls himself a portrait painter. His biographies of Jesus, Goethe, Napoleon, Bismarck, the Kaiser, and Lincoln, written over a long period of years, were not translated and printed in this country until the golden twenties. Their publication in such rapid order gave him the appearance of being a more prolific and popular writer than is actually the case.