John Twelve Hawks

John Twelve Hawks is the pseudonym of a (according to his own statement) American writer . His alleged first work is the novel Traveler , which was published in English in 2005 and in German in 2006 . Volume 2, "The Dark River", of the announced serial novels of the trilogy was published in July 2007 in English and in June 2008 in German. The third volume in the series was published on September 8, 2009 in the USA with the title "The Golden City". In the German translation, the last part is called "Traveler - Das Finale" and was published on September 20, 2010.

Details about Hawks are hardly known, all public information comes from his own statements. In an interview with the magazine of the Süddeutsche Zeitung , he explains that although he was a native American, he was by no means an Indian , which was suspected given his pseudonym. In addition, he reveals in the interview: "I am so old that I got to know the GDR in the 1970s . The fear of people of being constantly watched made a big impression on me."

He maintains contact with his publishers via a satellite phone that cannot be located . At the beginning of the English audio book version of his book, an electronically distorted voice speaks the words "This is John Twelve Hawks", and after some explanation of his motivation for writing the book: "I live outside the grid."

Web links

• Literature by and about John Twelve Hawks in the catalog of the German National Library
• John Twelve Hawks in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Works by and about John Twelve Hawks at Open Library
• Interview with John Twelve Hawks (in English)