Answer: Karel Capek
He is noted for fiction and non-fiction writing, including in history, music, science, and mathematics; his novels include “Gravity's Rainbow”, for which he won the 1973 US National Book Award for Fiction. Who is he?
It started as a play in Germany in 1897 by Oscar Blumenthal and actor Gustav Kadelburg, was recreated as a silent film in 1926 and then as a musical in 1930 as which it has remained popular. What is the title?