In this week’s encore presentation from July 2014, we talk to Erika Rummel. Erika  is the author/editor of many non-fiction, historical works, and an established novelist. In 2020 one of her historical novels, THE INQUISITOR’S NIECE, a story from the time of the Spanish Inquisition, received the award for “best historical novel” from the Colorado Publishers’ Association. In 2021 three books on which she worked during 2018/19 came home “to roost” all at the same time: the first, a translation from the German of a biography of the philosopher and humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam; the second a non-fiction book about the man who was Austria’s Chancellor when the Nazis occupied the country in 1938 and who was imprisoned until he was liberated by the Allies in 1945. The book is about the strategies he and other prisoners used for their emotional and intellectual survival. The third book is a new historical novel, THE ROAD TO GESUALDO, set in 16th century Italy. Other books include A NOBEL AFFAIR, an edited collection of correspondence between Alfred Nobel and his mistress, Sophie Hess, THREE WOMEN AND ALFRED NOBEL, and THE PAINTING ON AUERPERG’S WALL.