About Vicki Baum
Hedwig "Vicki" Baum (; January 24, 1888 – August 29, 1960) was an Austrian writer. She is known for the novel Menschen im Hotel ('People at a Hotel', 1929 — published in English as Grand Hotel), one of her first international successes. It was made into a 1932 film and a 1989 Broadway musical. Baum began writing in her teens but did not turn to writing professionally until after the birth of her first son. Her first, short-lived marriage, in 1906, was to Max Prels, an Austrian journalist who introduced her to the Viennese cultural scene; some of her first short stories were published under his name. Her first book, Frühe Schatten: Die Geschichte einer Kindheit ('Early Shadows: The Story of a Childhood'), 1919, was published when she was 31.
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