Felix Salten Felix Salten Felix Salten (; 6 September 1869 – 8 October 1945) was an Austrian author and critic in Vienna. His most famous work is "Bambi, a Life in the Woods" (1923). Salten was born Siegmund Salzmann in Pest, Austria-Hungary, the grandson of an Orthodox rabbi. When he was four weeks old, his family relocated to Vienna, Austria. Many Jews were immigrating into the city during the late 19th century because Vienna had granted full citizenship to Jews in 1867. When his father became bankrupt, the sixteen-year-old Salten quit school and began working for an insurance agency. He also began
The Hound of Florence The Hound of Florence The Hound of Florence: A Novel () is a 1923 novel written by Felix Salten. It is best known today for partly inspiring (and even mentioned in) the 1959 Walt Disney Pictures film, "The Shaggy Dog", as well as a sequel and remakes. The novel was first translated into English in 1930 by Huntley Paterson, and the translation has illustrations by Kurt Wiese. "The Hound of Florence" is an adventure story for young readers, set in early eighteenth-century Austria and Italy. The adolescent Lukas Grassi has lost his parents and lives in Vienna in great poverty,