TIME & PLACE
The play is set in the office of a San Francisco art gallery,
and in a country mansion near Munich, Germany.
It begins in November 1932 and ends in March 1934.
Note
In 1939, Simon & Schuster brought out "Address Unknown". The New York Times Book Review stated: "This modern story is perfection itself. It is the most effective indictment of Nazism to appear in fiction." The author said that Address Unknown came from real life and was based on a few actual letters.
At the time the the novella was first published, it was considered too forceful a story to be attributed to a woman. Taylor, a native of Portland, Oregon, was obliged to change her real first name from Kathrine to a male byline - Kressmann Taylor - (the combination of her maiden and married surnames). She deemed her deception as necessary in the social climate of the 1930s.
The significant and timeless message of Address Unknown speaks to our moral conscience and has earned a permanent place on bookshelves around the world.
