name: Lion Feuchtwanger
birth_date: 1884-07-07 00:00:00
death_date: 1958-12-21 00:00:00
genres: Historical Fiction, Literature & Fiction
avg_rating: 4.26
ratings_count: 9618
about: Lion Feuchtwanger was a German Jewish emigre. A renowned novelist and playwright who fled Europe during World War II and lived in Los Angeles from 1941 until his death. A fierce critic of the Nazi regime years before it assumed power precipitated his departure, after a brief internment in France, from Europe. He and his wife Marta obtained asylum in the United States in 1941 and remained there in exile until they died.