Rainer M. Schröder, born in Rostock in 1951, is one of Germany's best known authors of books for a teenage audience. With his meticulously researched and grippingly told historic young adult novels, he has built an enthusiastic readership for the last ten years. After spending many years travelling all over the world, he now lives at the Atlantic coast of Florida with his wife. Rainer M. Schröder has published numerous success novels and bestsellers, among them many historical novels such as Die Bruderschaft von heiligen Gral (The Brotherhood of the Holy Grail) (Arena Verlag) or the Australia novel Unter dem Jacaranda-Baum (Beneath the Jacaranda Tree). (Knaur) The latter was honoured with a special reward: The Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Central Institution for Political Education of the Federal Republic of Germany) chose it to be named in their brochure "Das 20. Jahrhundert in 100 Romanen" (The Twentieth Century in 100 Novels) as one of the 100 novels of world literature written in the Twentieth Century, which are well worth reading.
