Michelle with her contract for Nefertiti

Michelle with Alan Gordon, author of the Fools' Guild Mysteries

Friedrich Humboldt was born in 1767 and was not only a preeminent philosopher but also the founder of Humboldt University in Berlin. He was a good friend of Goethe as well as Schiller, and was an incredible German linguist who introduced the Basque language to European intellectuals.

This door has become famous in Ireland as being the door of Bloom's house in James Joyce's Ulysses.

Michelle with Diana Gabaldon, bestselling author of the Outlander Series

Michelle with Cindy Thomson, author of Brigid of Ireland

Goethe Statue in Germany. Goethe was one of the key figures of German literature as well as the movement of Weimar Classicism in the late 1700s. He was a poet, a novelist, a fine dramatist, a humanist, a scientist, a theorist, a painter, and lastly the chief minister of state.

A Berlin exhibit of famous German authors. Notice Luther, Schiller, Goethe, Kant and Mann.