Stefan Zweig, Born 1881
novelist, biographer & playwright
Stefan Zweig was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most widely translated and most popular writers in the world. Zweig was raised in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. He wrote historical studies of famous literary figures, such as Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. In 1934, as a result of the Nazi Party's rise in Germany, Zweig emigrated to England and then, in 1940, moved briefly to New York and then to Brazil, where he settled. In his final years. As the years passed Zweig became increasingly disillusioned and despairing at the future of Europe, and he and his wife Lotte were tragically found dead of a barbiturate overdose in their house in Petrópolis, Brazil, in February 1942. He wrote an account of his life and times under the title ‘The World of Yesterday’, which is archived here as his autobiographical life story.
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Source: ‘The World of Yesterday’ was archived here in 2021, with acknowledgement and thanks, from the Faded Page website of Canada at www.fadedpage.com. Part 2 was archived in 2021, with acknowledgement and thanks, from internet sources.