Author: Peter Penzoldt
Born: 18 January 1925
Died: 21 August 1969
Bio: Peter Penzoldt was the son of Fritz Penzoldt (1888-1959) and the famous Wagnerian contralto Sigrid Onégin (1889-1943), whose first husband had been the great Russian impressario Eugen Borisowitsch Onégin (1888-1919).
Peter Penzoldt’s doctoral thesis at the University of Geneva, *The Supernatural in Fiction* was written when he was twenty-four and published three years later; it was the major professional publication of his life.