Kiepenheuer & Witsch was founded in 1949 in Cologne by Gustav Kiepenheuer and Joseph Caspar Witsch. The press’s early authors included Joseph Roth, Heinrich Böll and Erich Maria Remarque. Today Kiepenheuer & Witsch continues to publish leading contemporary German, Austrian and Swiss writers, as well as international authors in translation. Its list includes Frank Schätzing, Uwe Timm, Katja Lange-Müller, Christian Kracht, Sevgi Özdamar, Feridun Zaimoglu, Gabriel García Márquez, Nick Hornby, Julian Barnes, Don De Lillo, David Foster Wallace, J.D. Salinger, Zadie Smith, J. M. G. Le Clézio, Vladimir Sorokin and many more. Its non-fiction subjects cover sociology, psychology, history and biography. Kiepenheuer & Witsch is part of the Holtzbrinck Group.