Erich Maria Remarque (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Erich Maria Remarque (ruh-mahrk), author of All Quiet on the Western Front, an outstanding novel of modern war, was from a Roman Catholic family of French descent. His father was a bookbinder; the family name was Remark. Educated in Osnabrück, where he was born Erich Paul Remark on June 22, 1898, he was drafted into the German Army during World War I when he was eighteen. He was wounded by British shell fragments. After his discharge he received a government-sponsored education for teaching, but a year’s experience convinced him that he was not suited to the academic life. He...
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