[Guestbook], 1920-1949.

Huberman, Bronisław, 1882-1947

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rs2pz5 (person)

Polish violinist. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : New York Dec. 10 1942, to Mr. [Dannie] Heineman, 1942 Dec. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270666484 Epithet: violinist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000624.0x000145 ...

Asch, Sholem, 1880-1957

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60h48cr (person)

Sholem Asch (November 1, 1880 – July 10, 1957) was a Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language. Born in Kutno, Poland to a Hasidic family, Asch received a formal Jewish education. He moved to Warsaw in 1899 and met and was mentored by prominent Yiddish writer I.L. Peretz. His first book of stories, In a Shlekhter Tsayt (In a Bad Time), was published in 1902 and he rose to prominence. He relocated to the United States in 1914. Asch became increasingly active in publi...

Ringelnatz, Joachim, 1883-1934

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6f76q3k (person)

Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6th8m55 (person)

Novelist. From the description of Letters, 1900-1932. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 708580518 From the description of Papers, 1925-1933. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 708580524 John Galsworthy was an English dramatist and novelist. Educated as a barrister at Harrow and New College, Oxford, he instead decided to travel, attending to his family's shipping business abroad, and then began writing. His first book, From the Four Winds, was a collec...

Beer-Hofmann, Richard, 1866-1945

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66d6jz8 (person)

Beer-Hofmann, an Austrian poet and dramatist, emigrated to the U.S. in 1938. From the description of Compositions, 1885-1966. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122581276 From the guide to the Compositions, 1885-1966., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Richard Beer-Hofmann was born on July 11. 1866. He was the son of Hermann and Rosa Beer. His mother died within a week of his birth and after her death, he was adopted and reared b...

Bloch, Jean-Richard, 1884-1947

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63x87wn (person)

Broch, Hermann, 1886-1951

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6474hvd (person)

Austrian writer Hermann Broch was born in Vienna on November 1, 1886. His major works include Die Schlafwandler (1930-32), Bergroman (1935-1951), and Der Tod des Vergil (1945). Broch died in New Haven, Connecticut, on May 30, 1951. From the description of Hermann Broch archive, 1872-1990 (inclusive) 1930-1951 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702131709 Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_...

Geiringer, Gertrud.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pk4k9g (person)

Gundolf, Friedrich, 1880-1931

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69g7t1g (person)

Gundolf, pseudonym of Friedrich Gundelfinger, was a German writer involved with the Stefan George group. He translated many of Shakespeare's works. From the description of Photograph. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122585342 ...

Torberg, Friedrich, 1908-1979

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nv9m97 (person)

A native of Prague, Friedrich Torberg (1908-1979) had been professionally active as a writer and journalist in Prague, Leipzig, and Vienna; his books were banned by the Nazis in 1933. He emigrated to Switzerland in 1938 and to France in 1939. From there he took a path similar to that of Franz Werfel and Alma Mahler, fleeing to Spain and Portugal, and then finally succeeding in emigrating to the U.S., arriving in New York City at the end of 1940. He had been acquainted with Werfel in passing in V...

Werfel, Franz, 1890-1945

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6h70fzt (person)

Franz Werfel was born Sept. 10, 1890 in Prague, Bohemia; one of the founders of the expressionist movement in German literature, Werfel began writing poetry when still a boy and published his first play when 20; published first book of verse in 1911; plays Goat song (1922) and Juarez and Maximilian (1925) were successfully produced in Europe and NY; published novel, Verdi, in 1924; married Alma Mahler, composer Gustav Mahler's widow, in 1929; in 1940 fled Nazis to US; wrote one of his most popul...

Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68p62c7 (person)

Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001085.0x000173 German author. From the description of Land of good will : typewritten article signed, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270609625 From the description of Autograph letter signed with initials : Bad Tölz, to Herr Fischer, his publisher, 1909 Aug. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270607913 From the description...