Count Albert Wass de Szentegyed et Czege was a Hungarian noble, forest engineer, novelist, poet, member of the Wass de Czege family. After WWII, he was condemned as a war criminal by the Romanian People's Tribunals. In spite of support to these accusations from the Wiesenthal Center, United States authorities refused to extradite Wass to Romania claiming the lack of solid evidence. The works of Albert Wass first gained recognition within Hungarian literature from Transylvania in the 1940s. In 1944 he moved to Germany and later in 1952 to United States of America, and lived there till his death. During the communist regime his books were banned both in Hungary and in Romania. Part of his works were published in Hungary after the change of political system in 1989, however, before this time, his works were unknown to Hungarian public. The critical processing of his works is still under way. He is popular among the Hungarian minority in Romania and has a growing popularity in Hungary