Erich Maria Remarque

Remarque, Erich Maria (b. June 22, 1898, Osnabrück, Germany ---d. Sept. 25 1970, Locarno, Switzerland), novelist who is chiefly remembered as the author of Im Westen nichts Neues (1929; All Quiet on the Western Front), which became perhaps the best-known and most representative novel dealing with the first World War.