Hugo Wolfram

Hugo Wolfram
Born1925
Bochum, Germany
Died (aged 90)[1][2]
Oxford, England[2]
NationalityBritish
Known forBusinessman
SpouseSybil Misch
ChildrenStephen Wolfram
Conrad Wolfram

Hugo Wolfram (/ˈwʊlfrəm/ WUUL-frəm; 1925 – 15 September 2015) was an English businessman and novelist,[3] of German Jewish origin. He served as managing director of the Lurex Company, makers of the fabric Lurex, and was the author of three novels[4][5] including Into a Neutral Country,[6] a psychological novel about the experience of refugees and the predicament of "displaced persons".[7]

  1. ^ HUGO WOLFRAM - Oxford Mail
  2. ^ a b Hugo Wolfram – memorygiving.com
  3. ^ "Books by Hugo Wolfram (Author of Root and branch;)". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2024-04-03.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Telling a good yarn by Jenny Lunnon was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ PHYSICIST AWARDED 'GENIUS' PRIZE FINDS REALITY IN INVISIBLE WORLD, by GLADWIN HILL, Special to the New York Times, Published: May 24, 1981
  6. ^ Howard Gottlieb Archival Research Center: Wolfram, Hugo (1925- ) Archived 2019-06-01 at the Wayback Machine: "The Hugo Wolfram collection consists of manuscripts by Wolfram for novels, short stories, and essays.Drafts of novels by Wolfram include The Hours of Darkness (unpublished, 1958); Into a Neutral Country (Longmans, 1967); Root and Branch (Longmans, 1969); and The Autobiography of an Unpleasant Man (unpublished, 1972). The drafts of stories date from ca. 1948 to 1961 (some are undated).Also present is Wolfram's translation, from German to English, of a short passage from Robert Musil's book Nachlass zu Lebzeiten."
  7. ^ Kirkus review of Into a Neutral Country, 1969.