Karl May

  • Known for: Writer
  • Date of birth: 1842. February 25.
  • Place of birth: Hohenstein-Ernstthal, Germany

Karl Friedrich May was a German writer best known for his adventure novels set in the American Old West. His main protagonists are Winnetou and Old Shatterhand. May set similar books in the Orient and Middle East (in which the main protagonists were Kara Ben Nemsi and Hadschi Halef Omar), Latin Amer...

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