Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Franz Werfel
Born: September 10, 1890
Died: August 26, 1945 (aged 54)
Bio: Franz Viktor Werfel was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II.
Known for:
- The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (1933)
- The Song of Bernadette (1941)
- Class Reunion (1928)
- Eine Blassblaue Frauenschrift (1941)
- Stern der Ungeborenen. Ein Reiseroman.