Paul Oskar Höcker the movies. He was the father of musician and author Karla Höcker. In the beginning of the twentieth century he wrote a number of Leatherstocking Tales for children in the vein of James Fenimore Cooper, and attracted attention in the United States; "The Pittsburg Press", in a short biographical article published in 1905, describes him as the author of "delightfully humorous stories." During World War I he was a captain in the Landwehr in Lille, France. He wrote of his experiences in the first three months of the war in "An der Spitze meiner Kompagnie. Drei Monate Kriegserlebnisse" (Berlin: 1919),
The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein might be accepted by readers with no vested interest in the issue, it would be "vehemently rejected out of hand" by the "literary establishment". Sadownick wrote that Lauritsen confirmed his view that "Frankenstein" is a gay work in the same sense as Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" (1855) and Oscar Wilde's "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" (1897), and offered a commendable psychological analysis, and a sensitive line-by-line reading, of the work. Charles E. Robinson rejected Lauritsen's thesis in "The Original Frankenstein" (2008), arguing that the testimony of authors such as Lord Byron, William Godwin, Claire Clairmont, Charles Clairmont, and Leigh