Erich Maria Remarque

1898, Germany — 1970

Erich Maria Remarque is best known for All Quiet on the Western Front, a stark anti-war novel based on his First World War experiences. The book was banned and publicly burned by the Nazi regime in 1933 for its anti-militaristic stance and its challenge to German nationalist mythology. Remarque fled Germany and continued writing in exile, later settling in the United States.