For the first time fully revealed: Lion Feuchtwanger's previously unpublished diaries. Feuchtwanger's diaries were discovered in the 1990s in the apartment of his secretary, where he likely hid them during the McCarthy era due to their explosive content. They may now be published for the first time, following the painstaking deciphering of all the passages written in shorthand. We encounter an unreservedly open chronicler of his own tumultuous life as well as central chapters of German history. As a successful author driven from his homeland by the Nazis, he mingled in exile with circles of art and politics and soon resumed his former successes. In California, he lived an intense life as a admired yet also vilified author, always sought after by interesting women—he remained true to his ideals throughout his life.