12018-07-26T20:23:50-07:00Zoë Wilkinson Saldaña6beb73a90c38e77367b9737ee8e808917759a78e310404plain2020-08-01T10:52:31-07:00Progue, Austria-HungarySeptember 10, 1890August 26, 1945143Beverly Hills, California, USAIsabella Buzynski4c5090420af98824ad786b6dac1f314b9e9f95a8Franz Werfel (1890–1945) was born and raised in Prague, where he was friendly with Franz Kafka, Max Brod, and Willy Haas. He began his career as an expressionist poet and later established himself as a dramatist and prose writer as he mingled with Jewish writers in the cafés of Vienna and Berlin. Although born to Jewish parents, his humanistic religiosity drew on both Judaism and Christianity, which is reflected in his writing.