Leonhard Frank

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Leonhard Frank (4 September 1882 in Würzburg - 18 August 1961 in Munich) was a German expressionist writer. He studied painting and graphic art in Munich, gained acclaim with his first novel, The Robber Band (1914, tr. 1928). He went into exile in Switzerland (1915-18), emigrated to the United States in 1933, and returned to Munich in 1950. His best-known novel was In the Last Coach (1925, tr. 1935), which he dramatized in 1929.

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