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Author Description <b>Stefan Zweig</b> was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Among his most famous works are <i>Beware of Pity</i>, <i>Letter from an Unknown Woman</i>, and <i>Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles</i>. He and his second wife committed suicide in 1942.<br />Zweig studied in Austria, France, and Germany before settling in Salzburg in 1913. In 1934, driven into exile by the Nazis, he emigrated to England and then, in 1940, to Brazil by way of New York. Finding only growing loneliness and disillusionment in their new surroundings, he and his second wife committed suicide.<br />Zweig's interest in psychology and the teachings of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/10017._Sigmund_Freud" title=" Sigmund Freud" rel="nofollow noopener"> Sigmund Freud</a> led to his most characteristic work, the subtle portrayal of character. Zweig's essays include studies of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/228089._Honor__de_Balzac" title=" Honoré de Balzac" rel="nofollow noopener"> Honoré de Balzac</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/239579._Charles_Dickens" title=" Charles Dickens" rel="nofollow noopener"> Charles Dickens</a>, and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3137322._Fyodor_Dostoevsky" title=" Fyodor Dostoevsky" rel="nofollow noopener"> Fyodor Dostoevsky</a> (<i>Drei Meister</i>, 1920; <i>Three Masters</i>) and of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/23162._Friedrich_H_lderlin" title=" Friedrich Hölderlin" rel="nofollow noopener"> Friedrich Hölderlin</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/54427._Heinrich_von_Kleist" title=" Heinrich von Kleist" rel="nofollow noopener"> Heinrich von Kleist</a>, and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1938._Friedrich_Nietzsche" title=" Friedrich Nietzsche" rel="nofollow noopener"> Friedrich Nietzsche</a> (<i>Der Kampf mit dem Dämon</i>, 1925; <i>Master Builders</i>). He achieved popularity with <i>Sternstunden der Menschheit</i> (1928; <i>The Tide of Fortune</i>), five historical portraits in miniature. He wrote full-scale, intuitive rather than objective, biographies of the French statesman <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2021416._Joseph_Fouch_" title=" Joseph Fouché" rel="nofollow noopener"> Joseph Fouché</a> (1929), Mary Stuart (1935), and others. His stories include those in <i>Verwirrung der Gefühle</i> (1925; <i>Conflicts</i>). He also wrote a psychological novel, <i>Ungeduld des Herzens</i> (1938; <i>Beware of Pity</i>), and translated works of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13847._Charles_Baudelaire" title=" Charles Baudelaire" rel="nofollow noopener"> Charles Baudelaire</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/29967._Paul_Verlaine" title=" Paul Verlaine" rel="nofollow noopener"> Paul Verlaine</a>, and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/953482._Emile_Verhaeren" title=" Emile Verhaeren" rel="nofollow noopener"> Emile Verhaeren</a>.<br />Most recently, his works provided the inspiration for 2014 film <i>The Grand Budapest Hotel</i>.

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