Zweig's best-known fiction includes Letter from an Unknown Woman (1922), Amok (1922), Fear (1925), Confusion of Feelings (1927), Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman (1927), the psychological novel Ungeduld des Herzens ( Beware of Pity, 1939), and The Royal Game (1941). He wrote biographies of Joseph Fouché (1929), Mary Stuart (1935) and Marie Antoinette ( Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman, 1932), among others. He wrote historical studies of famous literary figures, such as Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoevsky in Drei Meister (1920 Three Masters), and decisive historical events in Decisive Moments in History (1927). Zweig was raised in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most widely translated and popular writers in the world.
Stefan Zweig ( / z w aɪ ɡ, s w aɪ ɡ/ German: ( listen) 28 November 1881 – 22 February 1942) was an Austrian writer.
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