Baum, Vicki, 1888-1960

found: Apropos Vicki Baum, c1998:p. 137 (b. Jan. 24, 1888 in Vienna; d. Aug. 29, 1960 in Hollywood)

found: Wikipedia, February 26, 2019(Vicki Baum; Hedwig "Vicki" Baum (Hebrew: ויקי באום‎ = Ṿiḳi Baum; January 24, 1888 - August 29, 1960) was an Austrian writer; born in Vienna into a Jewish family; began her artistic career as a musician playing the harp; later worked as a journalist for the magazine Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, published by Ullstein-Verlag in Berlin; first book, Frühe Schatten: Die Geschichte einer Kindheit (Early Shadows: The Story of a Childhood, 1919), was published when she was 31; emigrated to the United States with her family after being invited to write the screenplay for Grand Hotel, an adaptation of her 1929 novel Menschen im Hotel; became an American citizen in 1938, and her post-World War II works were written in English rather than in German; died in Hollywood, California)

found: Jewish Women's Archive encyclopedia, via WWW, February 26, 2019(Vicki Baum (1888-1960); writer, playwright, and screenwriter; born in Vienna on January 24, 1888; in 1932, after the elections for chancellor, she emigrated to the United States with her family, settling in the Los Angeles area where she worked for ten years as a scriptwriter, first for Paramount, then for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and finally as a freelancer; in 1938 she became a citizen of the United States and henceforth wrote her works in English; died in Hollywood on August 29, 1960) - https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/baum-vicki

found: Authors' calendar website, February 26, 2019(Vicki Baum (1888-1960) - Original name Hedwig Baum; Austrian popular novelist; emigrated around mid-1932 with her family to the United States; starting in 1941 with The Ship and the Shore she wrote all her fiction in English, and produced a novel every two or three years)