Zweig, << zwyg or tsvyk, >> Stefan (1881-1942), was a well-known Austrian writer of psychological novels, stories, biographies, and poems. His best-known stories include Amok (1922), Conflicts (1927), and Beware of Pity (1939). Some of his best biographies are Romain Rolland (1921), Marie Antoinette (1932), and Erasmus of Rotterdam (1934).
Zweig was born on Nov. 28, 1881, in Vienna. The Nazis forced him to leave Austria because of his Jewish ancestry, and from 1934 to 1940 he lived in London. He and his wife committed suicide in Brazil on Feb. 22, 1942, because of their depression over world affairs. He described the tragic conflicts of his life in his autobiography, The World of Yesterday (published in 1943, after his death).
