"There was a time when Stefan Zweig was the most widely read author in the world. He was lionized everywhere, translated into every language. For the first four decades of the 20th century, his novellas and biographies were devoured by rich and poor, young and old, well read or less so."
Andre Aciman is an Egyptian-born Italian-American novelist, essayist, and memoirist. He is best known for the novel Call Me by Your Name and for the memoir Out of Egypt. He teaches at the CUNY Graduate Center as a distinguished professor of comparative literature.