Max Brod Author

Max Brod (1884-1968) was a Czech-born, German-language novelist, and a lifelong friend of Franz Kafka, Peter Fenves is the Joan and Sarepta Harrison Professor of Literature at Northwestern University. Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was born in what was then Austria-Hungary and before his books were banned by the Nazis his biographies, plays, stories, and his only novel Beware of Pity (Northwestern, 1996), established his reputation as one of the most widely read and translated authors in the world.