Ferenc Molnár

Ferenc Molnár, born Ferenc Neumann in Budapest on 12 January 1878 into a Jewish family of German origin, the son of a doctor, studied law in Budapest and Geneva but chose journalism and wrote for Budapesti Napló. A playwright performed throughout the world, he produced Liliom in 1909, from which Rodgers and Hammerstein would draw the musical Carousel. A war correspondent during the First World War, he settled in New York in January 1940 and died there on 1 April 1952.

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• NovelThe Paul Street BoysA Pál utcai fiúkFerenc Molnár · 1907Literature