Hugo Wolfram

 ( 1925 Births ) 

Hugo Wolfram ( ; 1925 – 15 September 2015) was an English businessman and novelist, 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 PHYSICIST AWARDED 'GENIUS' PRIZE FINDS REALITY IN INVISIBLE WORLD, by GLADWIN HILL, Special to the New York Times, Published: May 24, 1981 including Into a Neutral Country, Howard Gottlieb Archival Research Center: Wolfram, Hugo (1925- ) : "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manuscripts by Wolfram for novels, short stories, and essays.Drafts of novels by Wolfram include The Hours of Darkness (unpublished, 1958); Into a Neutral Country (Longmans, 1967); Root and Branch (Longmans, 1969); and The Autobiography of an Unpleasant Man (unpublished, 1972).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." a psychological novel about the experience of refugees and the predicament of "displaced persons". Kirkus review of Into a Neutral Country, 1969.

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Biography Hugo Wolfram was born in Germany, emigrating to England in 1933. Hugo Wolfram. 1925- , Jüdische Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller in Westfalen. When World War II broke out, young Hugo left school at 15 and subsequently found it hard to get a job since he was an enemy alien. As an adult, he took correspondence courses in philosophy and psychology. Telling a good yarn by Jenny Lunnon, Oxford Times, Thursday 21 September 2006.

He was the father of computer scientist Stephen Wolfram and British Technology and businessman Conrad Wolfram.

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