BIOGRAPHY FELLOW 2012 – 2013

Damion Searls

For a biography of Hermann Rorschach

Damion Searls is the author of Everything You Say Is True, a travelogue, and What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going, a collection of stories. He has written for Harper’s, The Believer, n+1, The Paris Review, Bookforum, Brick, and others, and is the editor of Thoreau’s The Journal: 1837-1861. He is an award-winning translator from German, French, Dutch, and Norwegian, including books by Proust, Rilke, Ingeborg Bachmann, Hans Keilson, and Nescio, as well as biographies of Anne Frank’s family and of Martin Kippenberger. His forthcoming translations include a collection of stories by Robert Walser, the last novel by Christa Wolf, and a new translation of Hermann Hesse’s Demian. As a Leon Levy fellow he worked on a biography of the Swiss psychologist Hermann Rorschach, The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing, published by Crown in February 2017.