Quote of the day
Good authors, too, who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose —
Anything goes.
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.