George Prochnik on Stefan Zweig

In the early 1930s Stefan Zweig was the most widely translated living author in the world. By 1934 he was living in exile, at one point in Bath. In 1942 he committed suicide. As Zweig’s brilliance is rediscovered (his fans include historian Antony Beevor and actor Colin Firth), New York-based biographer George Prochnik presents a compelling insight into a lost world. “Fascinating” — Vogue