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Zsigmond Móricz was born inTiszacsécse in 1879 to Bálint Móricz and Erzsébet (née Pallagi). On his mother's side, he came from an impoverished but ancient noble family while his father was the descendant ofserfs.[1] He studied at theDebrecen Reformed Theological University (1891–1893), Sárospataki Kollégium (1894–1896), and inKisújszállás andSzakoly (1896–1898). In 1899, he enrolled at the Debrecen Reformed Theological University to studytheology, but transferred into law after only six months.
In 1903, he began to work as a journalist at the newspaperAz Újság, remaining there until 1909.
During the revolutionary government afterWorld War I, he was vice president of theVörösmarty Academy. After its fall, his plays were not performed in the National Theater, and his work was published only inNyugat andAz Est. At the end of 1929, he became the prose editor forNyugat.
In 1905, Moricz married Eugénia Holics. Suffering from depression, she committed suicide in 1925. He married for a second time in 1926 toMária Simonyi [hu].
His novels express the lives of the Hungarian peasantry and dealt with issues of poverty.
Kivilágos kivirradtig (Until the Small Hours of Morning) (1924)
Légy jó mindhalálig (Be Faithful Unto Death) (1920), a classic of Hungarian literature. It is the story from the viewpoint of an 11-year-old boy at a boarding school inDebrecen.[2]
Úri muri (Very Merry) (1928)
Rokonok (Relatives) (1932)
Hét krajcár (Seven Pennies and Other Short Stories) (1907)
Az ezüstkirály sípja. Iromba J (Silver King's Flute; Broody Jankó)
Sárarany (Gold in the Mud: A Hungarian Peasant Novel) (1911)
Az Isten háta mögött (In the Godforsaken Hinterlands: A Tale of Provincial Hungary) (1911)
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