Josef Kainar was born on July 29, 1917 in Prerov, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was a writer, known for The Outrageous Baron Munchausen (1962), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959) and Pohádka o staré tramvaji (1961). He died on November 16, 1971 in Dobrís, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].