Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) was an Austrian novelist, short-story writer, biographer and playwright. Born in Vienna into a wealthy Jewish family, he became one of the most widely read authors of the interwar years with novellas such as Amok, Letter from an Unknown Woman and Confusion, and biographies of Marie Antoinette, Fouché and Mary Queen of Scots. A committed pacifist and European, he left Austria in 1934 for England and later Brazil, where he wrote his memoir The World of Yesterday and Chess Story before taking his own life in Petrópolis in 1942.
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Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) was an Austrian novelist, short-story writer, biographer and playwright. Born in Vienna into a wealthy Jewish family, he became one of the most widely read authors of the interwar years with novellas such as Amok, Letter from an Unknown Woman and Confusion, and biographies of Marie Antoinette, Fouché and Mary Queen of Scots. A committed pacifist and European, he left Austria in 1934 for England and later Brazil, where he wrote his memoir The World of Yesterday and Chess Story before taking his own life in Petrópolis in 1942.
