About
Important twentieth-century Polish prose writer whose works include The Street of Crocodiles and Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass. These famous works were adapted into films in 1986 and 1973, respectively.
Before Fame
He taught art at a school in Poland during the post-World War I years.
Trivia
He was murdered by a Nazi officer. At the time of his death, he was working on a novel called The Messiah.
Family Life
He was born to a cloth merchant in the city of Drohobych, Poland (which is located in modern-day Ukraine).
Associated With
Like fellow twentieth-century Polish author, Slawomir Mrozek, Schulz often wrote in surrealist, modernist, and absurdist styles.
