Dubbed a "20th-century Brother Grimm” (Bloomsbury Review) and "a delinquent Hans Christian Andersen” (by playwright Mark O=Donnell), Peter Wortsman is the author of a book of short fiction, A Modern Way To Die (Fromm, 1991), two stage plays, "The Tattooed Man Tells All” (2000) and “Burning Words,” (2004), and an artists’ book, “it-t=i,” (Here and Now Press, 2005) on which he collaborated with his brother, the artist Harold Wortsman. Also a critically acclaimed translator from the German, his translations include Posthumous Papers of a Living Author, by Robert Musil, now in its third edition (Eridanos, 1988; Penguin 20th-Century Classics, 1995; Archipelago Books, 2006); Telegrams of the Soul: Selected Prose of Peter Altenberg (Archipelago, 2005) and Travel Pictures, by Heinrich Heine (forthcoming from Archipelago Books). He is the recipient of the Beard’s Fund Short Story Award and fellowships from the Fulbright and Thomas J. Watson Foundations.