Author Günter Grass, 87, died April 13, 2015 in a hospital in Lübeck, Germany, where he’d lived for many years. Grass was a Nobel Prize-winning author of novels and poetry who occasionally made use of the fantastic in his work, an approach he called “broadened reality.” Notable examples include The Tin Drum (1959) and The Rat (1986). Günter Wilhelm Grass was born October 16, 1927 in Danzig (now Gdańsk, in … Continue reading Günter Grass (1927-2015)