!!!Wechsberg, Joseph

b. Ostrava, Czech Republic (then Maehrisch-Ostrau), Aug. 29, 1907, 
d. Vienna, April 10, 1983. Narrative writer, essayist, 
journalist, law graduate. Globe-trotter, 1936 parliamentary secretary 
to the Jewish party in Prague. Went to New York in 1938, where he 
began to write in English; achieved fame through his childhood 
memories ("Looking for a Bluebird", 1945, under the German title 
of "Ein Musikant spinnt sein Garn", 1949). After World War II 
military correspondent in Europe, later Austrian correspondent of "The 
New Yorker" magazine in Vienna.

!Further works
Novel, autobiography, essays and other works.

!Literature
J. Serke, J. W., in: J. Serke, Boehmische Doerfer, 
1987.



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