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Finding only growing loneliness and disillusionment in their new surroundings, he and his second wife committed suicide.

In 1934, driven into exile by the Nazis, he emigrated to England and then, in 1940, to Brazil by way of New York. Zweig studied in Austria, France, and Germany before settling in Salzburg in 1913.

He and his second wife committed suicide in 1942. Among his most famous works are Beware of Pity, Letter from an Unknown Woman, and Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Louis Public Library.Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. For more information please email: on-street parking is available, as well as paid lots adjacent to Kingside Diner and at the Schlafly branch of the St. Hors d’oeuvres and refreshments are provided.

The games they engage in become an allegory for the contest between a totalitarian will to power and the extravagantly overgrown life of the pre-War Austro-German intelligentsia.įree admission for WCHOF members. Today, Zweig is best known for his memoir, The World of Yesterday, and for a sensibility that inspired Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel. The narrative focuses on a series of matches between a brilliant and monomaniacal chess master, and a lawyer who learned to play chess entirely in his head. The five stories, which span Zweig’s career, are sophisticated and suspenseful portraits reflecting the intellectual culture of prewar Germany and the bleakness of WWI. The Royal Game is Zweig’s final achievement, sent to his American publisher only days before his death in 1942. At the height of his literary career, he was the most translated European writer in the world, whose death made the front page of the New York Times. Rediscover the work of Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist, and biographer Stefan Zweig.