ABSTRACT
ZWEIG, Stefan 1881-1942. Austrian writer. A sensitive humanist with a marked psychological insight, Zweig became famous for a series of biographical studies, including Balzac, Dickens, Dostoevski, Tolstoy, Marie Antoinette and Mary Queen of Scots. He also wrote poetry, short stories, critical essays and a pacifist drama, Jeremiah (1922; German original 1918). His novel about a crippled girl, Beware of Pity (1939; German original 1938), became a successful film. Some of his themes were Jewish, notably the story The Buried Candelabrum (1937). With the rise of Hitler, he took refuge in Britain, and then in Brazil. He committed suicide, together with his second wife, after writing a melancholy autobiography, The World of Yesterday (1943; German origi nal 1942).
