George Prochnik

What we can still learn from the author who made it his mission to explain and make sense of what happened in 1914 when World War I broke out.

In George Prochnik's new book, "The Impossible Exile Stefan Zweig and the End of the World," Prochnik tells the story of a man that led an inspired life and ultimately was taken down by a tragic fall.

By the 1930s, Stefan Zweig had become the most widely translated living author in the world, but after Hitler rose to power, Zweig became an increasingly isolated exile, and in 1942,...

For his new book In Pursuit of Silence, author George Prochnik went on a personal quest to examine how we came to be so loud as a society, and what gets lost when we can no longer find quiet. Along the way he met with monks, a soldier in Afghanistan, ...

In 1930, Stefan Zweig was considered the world's most translated author, with a circle of friends that included Rainer Maria Rilke, Auguste Rodin, and Sigmund Freud. Yet when he was forced into exile from his native Austria during World War II, Zweig's work faded from view, even more so after ...