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- NAME: Stefan Zweig
- OCCUPATION: Journalist, Author, Playwright
- BIRTH DATE: November 28, 1881
- DEATH DATE: February 22, 1942
- EDUCATION: University of Vienna
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Vienna, Austria
- PLACE OF DEATH: Petrópolis, Brazil
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Stefan Zweig was an Austrian writer and novelist popular in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Stefan Zweig was born on November 28, 1881, in Vienna, Austria. During the 1920s and '30s, Zweig was one of the world's most widely known authors. His works include Beware of Pity, Letter from an Unknown Woman and Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles. Depressed and hopeless about the rise of Hitler and the fate of Europe, Zweig and his second wife committed suicide in 1942.
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