But by age sixteen he was well into writing he composed poems, essays, and the beginnings of a novel he would later complete and publish. Works in Biographical and Historical ContextĮarly Interest in Writing, Teaching Erich Maria Remarque was born Erich Paul Remark on July 22, 1898, in Osnabrück, Germany, to bookbinder Peter Franz and mother Anna Maria Remark. Though his later antiwar novels, especially the 1952 novel Arch of Triumph, won high praise from critics, it is for All Quiet on the Western Front that he is best remembered. German author Erich Maria Remarque was a popular novelist whose All Quiet on the Western Front (1929) was the most successful German best seller on the subject of the soldier's life in World War I.
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