Karl May was a man of many parts, to say the least. Part Zane Grey, part P.T. Barnum, part Soapy Smith, part Walter Mitty, part Nietzsche, part Billy Graham and just maybe part madman. He became Germany’s best-known, best-loved and most-read author. His fans included Albert Schweitzer, Albert Einstein and Adolf Hitler. May (pronounced “my”) lived a life just as fanciful as the Old West novels he wrote. He was born in Saxony in 1842, the fifth of 14 children of poverty-stricken wea
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