Bridgwater, Patrick, Poet of Expressionist Berlin: The Life and Work of Georg Heym, Libris, 1991.

Bridgwater provides an accessible and entertaining
biography of one of the leading poets of the expressionist
movement.

Brod, Max, Franz Kafka: A Biography, Da Capo, 1995.

Brod was a friend of Kafka's, and his biography is
an insider's look at Kafka's life. This is an accessible,
very sensitive, and thorough biography written
on Kafka.

Dove, Richard, He Was a German: A Biography of Ernst Toller, Libris, 1990.

Toller was a socialist and leading expressionist
dramatist. Dove provides an entertaining biography
of his life and art.

Johnson, Walter, August Strindberg, Twayne, 1976.

Johnson's work on Strindberg's life and plays is an
excellent place to begin study of this expressionist
writer.

Styan, John, Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Expressionism and Epic Theater, Cambridge, 1981.

Styan considers expressionist theater as embodying
a "rigorous anti-realism" in its representation of...