Juliane Nitzke-Dürr's work 'Lothar Freiherr von Faber' is dedicated to the history of the Faber-Castell dynasty, with the focus on Lothar von Faber (1817–1896) — the first great entrepreneur of the family and founder of the worldwide reputation of the Faber name. The book is divided, among other things, into chapters on company history, the first three generations, expansion and marketing, the patriarch's social responsibility and corporate development to the present. It appeared from Ullstein Verlag, comprises around 158 pages with numerous black-and-white illustrations (ISBN 3-548-35872-1) and is only available second-hand.
In addition there is the novelistic biography 'Eine Zierde in ihrem Hause. Die Geschichte der Ottilie von Faber-Castell' by Asta Scheib. It tells the life of Ottilie, who in 1893 at sixteen became sole heiress of the pencil factory A.W. Faber, and her marriage to Count Alexander zu Castell-Rüdenhausen, embedded in the lust for life and end-of-the-world mood of the fin de siècle. It appeared as a Rowohlt paperback with 494 pages (ISBN 3-499-26399-8), likewise only second-hand.