Biography
Joseph Roth was born on 2 September 1894 in Brody in Galicia, then part of Austria-Hungary. From 1914 he studied German literature in Vienna and volunteered for military service in 1916. After the war he worked as a journalist, from 1923 as a feature correspondent for the Frankfurter Zeitung, and also published novels, among them Hotel Savoy (1924), set in a hotel in an Eastern European industrial town after the First World War. Job (1930) and The Radetzky March (1932) became his best-known works. On the day Hitler was appointed chancellor in January 1933 he left Germany for exile in Paris, where works such as The Emperor's Tomb and The Legend of the Holy Drinker were written. Roth died in Paris on 27 May 1939.
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