Instructed his friend Max Brod to burn all his work after his death. Max Brod decided to publish it instead.
His two brothers died as infants in the late 1880s and his three
sisters were murdered in the Holocaust.
None of his work was published in his lifetime and was only found after his death.
He died of tuberculosis which had moved up to his larynx and robbed him
of the ability to speak in his last days.
Worked at an Insurance company.
Inventor of the Builder's Hard Hat.
Considered one of the most influential authors of the 20th century.
He dreamed of emigrating to Palestine and becoming an
artisan/carpenter; later, he contemplated moving to Tel Aviv and
opening up a Jewish restaurant with his friend Dora Diamant where she
would cook and he would serve as the waiter.
Kafka has described the US' Statue of Liberty as holding a sword, when it is in fact a torch.
He was a big fan of movies, an innovation at the time he was alive.