Hermann Hesse
1877–1962 · German-Swiss · 20th Century
Known for: Wrote Siddhartha and Steppenwolf — the novelist who gave every 19-year-old their first spiritual crisis
Hesse's novels — Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, The Glass Bead Game — explore the individual's search for authenticity and self-knowledge. He won the Nobel Prize in 1946. His work had a massive revival in the 1960s counterculture.
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