Max Brod

Max Brod
Brod in 1914
Born	27 May 1884 Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic)
Died	20 December 1968(1968-12-20) (aged 84) Tel Aviv, Israel
Citizenship	Austria-Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Israel
Alma mater	German Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague
Occupation(s)	Author, composer, journalist
Spouse	Elsa Taussig ​ ​ (m. 1913; died 1942)​

Max Brod (Hebrew: מקס ברוד; 27 May 1884 – 20 December 1968) was a Bohemian-born Israeli author, composer, and journalist.

Although he was a prolific writer in his own right, he is best remembered as the friend and biographer of writer Franz Kafka. Kafka named Brod as his literary executor, instructing Brod to burn his unpublished work upon his death. Brod refused and had Kafka's works published instead.

In 1939, as the Nazis occupied Prague, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine, taking with him a suitcase of Kafka's papers, many of them unpublished notes, diaries, and sketches.