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Vicki Baum


Born
in Wien, Austria
January 24, 1888

Died
August 29, 1960

Genre
Literature & Fiction


Vicki Baum (penname of Hedwig Baum) was born in a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria. She moved to the United States in 1932 and when her books were banned in the Third Reich in 1938, she started publishing in English. She became an American citizen in 1938 and died in Los Angeles, in 1960.

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Average rating: 3.85 · 4,270 ratings · 599 reviews · 140 distinct works • Similar authors
Grand Hotel
3.88 avg rating — 2,652 ratings — published 1929 — 132 editions
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A Tale from Bali
3.91 avg rating — 340 ratings — published 1937 — 45 editions
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Hotel Shanghai
4.13 avg rating — 191 ratings — published 1937 — 56 editions
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Vor Rehen wird gewarnt
3.84 avg rating — 191 ratings — published 1951 — 28 editions
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Hotel Berlin '43
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 1944 — 46 editions
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El ángel sin cabeza
3.82 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 1949 — 26 editions
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Der große Ausverkauf
3.61 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1937 — 17 editions
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Der Weihnachtskarpfen. Erzä...
4.08 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1941 — 6 editions
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Stud. chem. Helene Willfüer
3.41 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 1928 — 16 editions
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Ballerina
3.76 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1958 — 27 editions
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“There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them!”
― Vicki Baum, Ballerina
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“He who does not move with the times is a dead man”
― Vicki Baum, Grand Hotel
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“A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life. ”
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