Authors

Austrian · 1881–1942

Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig was an Austrian novelist, biographer, and playwright who was one of the most widely translated authors in the world in the 1920s-1930s. His novellas — Letter from an Unknown Woman, Amok, Chess Story — and his historical biographies were enormously popular across Europe. He fled Vienna after the Anschluss, eventually settling in Petrópolis, Brazil, where he and his second wife died by suicide on the same day in 1942, despairing at the fall of the European civilization he had loved.