Wolfgang Herrndorf (12 June[citation needed] 1965 in Hamburg – 26 August 2013 in Berlin) was a German author, painter, and illustrator.

His critically and commercially biggest success was the novel Tschick (published as Why We Took the Car in English), a bildungsroman about two fourteen-year-old boys.

[2] Herrndorf, who lived in Berlin, regularly wrote in the web forum "Wir höflichen Paparazzi" (a German web forum that reports on random encounters with celebrities), which is acknowledged to have had a strong influence on Herrndorf and worked as a space for resonance.

In 2014 Rowohlt published the sequel of Tschick from Isa's point of view as an unfinished novel with the title Bilder deiner großen Liebe (Pictures Of Your True Love).

The epilogue by Kathrin Passig and Marcus Gärtner states that Herrndorf himself approved the release and determined the title.