Erich Maria Remarque
Birthday: 22 June 1898, Osnabrück, Germany
Birth Name: Erich Paul Remark
German novelist Remarque was born in Osnabruck in 1898. His first novel, the anti-war All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), was written in response to his experiences as a soldier in WWI, and published in 1929. He moved to Switzerland until 1939, when he emigrated to the U.S., where he lived and wrote until his death in 1970.
