Joseph Roth, journalist, and novelist was born and grew up in Brody, a small town near Lemberg in East Galicia, part of the easternmost reaches of what was then the Austro-Hungarian empire and is now Ukraine. Roth was born into a Jewish family. He died in Paris after living there in exile.
Books (translated into English) in order of publication:
The Spider’s Web – 1923
Hotel Savoy – 1924
The Leviathan – 1924
Flight Without End – 1927
The Wandering Jews – 1927
Job – 1930
The Radetzky March (Von Trotta Family #1) – 1932
Tarabas – 1934
Confession of a Murderer: Told in One Night – 1936
The Hundred Days – 1936
Weights and Measures – 1937
The Emperor’s Tomb (Von Trotta Family # 2) – 1938
The Hotel Years – 1939
The Tale of the 1002nd Night – 1939
What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933 – 1984