Franz Werfel, Austrian-Bohemian author, poet, and playwright (died 1945)

Franz Werfel

Austrian-Bohemian writer (1890–1945)

Franz Viktor Werfel was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II. He is primarily known as the author of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, a novel based on events that took place during the Armenian…