2 Quotes & Sayings By Vera Caspary
Vera Caspary is a German novelist and short story writer. She was born in Berlin in 1902, the daughter of a well-known lawyer. In 1918 she married the architect Hans Caspary, with whom she had two sons. In 1929, after divorcing her husband, Vera moved to Rome
Her first novel, Der Sturm (The Storm), which was published in 1932, was received with critical acclaim and sold 300,000 copies in a year. It was followed by a series of novels that were best known for their erotic descriptions of intimate lovemaking between young aristocrats and common prostitutes. Vera Caspary's fiction was banned in many countries due to its frankness and depictions of sexual activity, as well as its criticism of the Nazis and their persecution of the Jews.