The author, journalist and grande dame of Austrian literature, Hilde Spiel (1911-1990), was born in Vienna. She emigrated to London in 1936, returning to Austria for the first time in 1946 as correspondent for the New Statesman and later in 1963 to resettle there for good. Hilde Spiel left an impressive body of works in both German and English, including novels such as Flute and Drums and The Darkened Room, and her biography of Fanny von Arnstein. For twenty years she was correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Weltwoche. Her memoirs are a microcosm of literary and political life in Europe during the upheavals of the twentieth century and convey the conflicting forces in the lives of éé

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