Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21; 1899 - July 2; 1961) was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction; while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s; and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.

Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg (1891 - 1967) was a Soviet writer; journalist; translator; and cultural figure. Ehrenburg is among the most prolific and notable authors of the Soviet Union; he published around one hundred titles. He became known first and foremost as a novelist and a journalist - in particular; as a reporter in three wars (First World War; Spanish Civil War and the Second World War). His articles on the Second World War have provoked intense controversies in West Germany; especially during the sixties.

Gustav Regler (25 May 1898 - 14 January 1963) was a German Socialist novelist. Regler was born in Merzig. He served in the Germany Infantry during the First World War; and was seriously injured; he joined the Communist Party; and spent time in the USSR. He later served as political commissar of the XII International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War. Whilst in Spain he befriended Ernest Hemingway; and was wounded at the Battle of Guadalajara. Pictures From History