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R. Waldheim
A little-known writer whose work survives mainly through a Finnish translation, this author is best remembered for a dramatic historical tale set in the American South. The surviving record is sparse, which gives the work an added air of mystery.
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Musta naamio : Kertomus
by R. Waldheim
About the author
Very little confirmed biographical information is readily available for this author. Public-domain library records list R. Waldheim as the author of Musta naamio: Kertomus, a work preserved through Project Gutenberg and the Online Books Page.
The book is available in Finnish translation by Ida Hurmalainen, which suggests that Waldheim's writing traveled across languages and readers even if the author is not well documented today. Based on the surviving catalog information, Waldheim appears to be one of those writers whose name now lives on more through a single circulating text than through a well-recorded public life.
Because reliable biographical sources are so limited, it is safest to present Waldheim as an obscure historical author rather than fill in details that cannot be confirmed.