Tim Mohr

Tim Mohr is an award-winning translator of authors such as Wolfgang Herrndorf, Charlotte Roche, and five books by Alina Bronsky. He has also collaborated on memoirs by musicians Gil Scott-Heron, Duff McKagan of Guns N' Roses, and Paul Stanley of KISS. His own writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review , New York Magazine , and Inked , among other publications, and he spent several years as a staff editor at Playboy magazine, where he edited Hunter S. Thompson, John Dean, and Harvey...See more

Tim Mohr is an award-winning translator of authors such as Wolfgang Herrndorf, Charlotte Roche, and five books by Alina Bronsky. He has also collaborated on memoirs by musicians Gil Scott-Heron, Duff McKagan of Guns N' Roses, and Paul Stanley of KISS. His own writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review , New York Magazine , and Inked , among other publications, and he spent several years as a staff editor at Playboy magazine, where he edited Hunter S. Thompson, John Dean, and Harvey Pekar, among others. He is the author of Burning Down the Haus , a history of political struggle and punk music in East Germany. Prior to starting his writing career he earned his living as a club DJ in Berlin. See less