Alfred Neumann (writer)
Alfred Neumann (15 October 1895 – 3 October 1952) was a German writer of novels, stories, poems, plays, and films, as well as a translator into German.

Biography
Neumann was born in Lautenburg, Germany (now Poland). He was a recipient of the Kleist Prize in 1926 and his writings were banned during the Third Reich. His novel Der Patriot was turned into a play and filmed in 1928, directed by Ernst Lubitsch. The film was remade in France in 1938 directed by Maurice Tourneur.

He was working in Italy when Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933. The Nazi party seized all his property due to his Jewish heritage. He remained in Italy until 1938 when he moved to France. The French film La Tragédie impériale (1938), were based on his novel.

He moved to Los Angeles in 1941 and became a US citizen, where he stayed until 1949. His work as a screenwriter included None Shall Escape (1944), Conflict (1945), and The Return of Monte Cristo (1946).  Neumann produced the first successful stage adaptation of War and Peace in 1942.  His novels included King Haber and The Devil.

Neumann was married to a Swiss dancer. They divorced and he then married the daughter of Georg Müller, the publisher, who published Neumann's first book of verse.

He died in Lugano, Switzerland, aged 56.

Books published (incomplete list):

 Life of Christina of Sweden 
 Man of December 
 Mirror of fools 
 New Caesar 
 The friends of the people 
 Six of them 
 The Devil

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1895 births
1952 deaths
American male screenwriters
Kleist Prize winners
People from Lugano
20th-century American male writers
20th-century American screenwriters
Emigrants from the Weimar Republic
Immigrants to Italy
Immigrants to the United States
German people of Jewish descent