He also wrote a novel in which Escherish hunts down a couple who are distributing anti-Nazi postcards, Otto and Anna Quangel, who are based on the real-life Otto and Elise Hampel.
One of this author's novels opens with a description of the postwoman Eva Kluge, who refuses to let her husband Enno into her house. Joseph Goebbels wanted this author to write an anti-Semitic novel, because he had grabbed Goebbels' attention with a novel about the economic collapse of the Weimar Republic. He managed to avoid completing the project, but did write a state-sponsored novel called Iron Gustav. His other works were more critical of Nazi Germany, including a novel about alcohol and morphine addiction which he wrote in code while in an insane asylum, The Drinker. He also wrote a novel in which Escherish hunts down a couple who are distributing anti-Nazi postcards, Otto and Anna Quangel, who are based on the real-life Otto and Elise Hampel. For 10 points, name this author of Little Man, What Now? and Every Man Dies Alone.
One of this author's novels opens with a description of the postwoman Eva Kluge, who refuses to let her husband Enno into her house.
Hans Fallada [or Rudolf Wilhelm Friedrich Ditzen]