E. T. A. Hoffmann

Writer, known for The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, The Nutcracker, Barbie in the Nutcracker

From Wikipedia. Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. His stories form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's famous opera The Tales of Hoffmann, in which Hoffmann appears (heavily fictionalized) as the hero. He is…