← Frederic MortonThe Houndby Frederic MortonFind on Amazon↗About the authorFrederic MortonFrederic Morton was an Austrian-born American writer whose The Rothschilds and A Nervous Splendor blended historical narrative with novelistic technique. His memoir Thunder at Twilight about 1913 Vienna is his most celebrated work.More by Frederic MortonThe RothschildsHistorical biography of the European Rothschild banking family→Thunder at TwilightHistory of imperial Vienna in the final years before World War One→A Nervous SplendorHistorical account of Vienna's cultural golden age in the 1880s→Crosstown Sabbath→