Franz Werfel

Franz Werfel (1890-1945) was born in Prague, the son of a wealthy manufacturer of gloves and leather goods, was a reader for a Leipzig publisher before the war, in which he served as a soldier, and became in the twenties and thirties one of the most widely read German-language authors. In 1929 he married Alma Mahler, the composer's widow, left Austria for France in 1938, reached the United States in 1940 by way of Spain, and died in Beverly Hills five years later.

In the catalogue 1

• NovelThe Forty Days of Musa DaghDie vierzig Tage des Musa DaghFranz Werfel · 1933LiteraturePublic domain