PETER ALTENBERG - 1859 - 1919

• How I Became A Writer  An essay from Altenberg which begins: "...I was sitting in Cafe Central, Vienna, Herrengasse, in a room with golden embossed English wallpaper. "

• Essayist whose work is included in The Vienna Coffeehouse Wits 1890 - 1938   See especially pages 109-122. A significant selection of his marvelous short writings follows the biograhical sketch.

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