Joseph R. Brodsky, often known as Joseph Brodsky and Joe Brodsky, was an early 20th-Century American civil rights lawyer, political activist, general counsel of the International Labor Defense (ILD), co-founder of the International Juridical Association (IJA), and member of ILD defense team for members of the Scottsboro Boys Case of the 1930s.
Saint Anna German High School (Russian: Главное немецкое училище Святой Анны ), usually known as Annenschule (Russian: Анненшуле ), was a school in Saint Petersburg, Russia founded in 1736 for children of the German population of the city.
 In 1918, Annenschule became Soviet work school №11, and later school №203.
 Its alumni included well known people - ethnologist Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai, jeweler Peter Fabergé, philologist Faddei Zielinski, teacher and physician Peter Lesgaft, poet and Nobel Prize laureate Joseph Brodsky, actress Elena Granovsky, writer Igor Yefimov, and chess world championship pretendent Victor Korchnoi.
 In 1975 the famous city specialized high school №239 moved into the building.
"Part of speech" - the name of the cycle of Joseph Brodsky's poems created in the years 1975-1976.
 This cycle gave the name of a book of poems, published in 1977 by the publishing house "Ardis".
 The self-titled, but radically different in composition collection of selected poems of the poet was published in 1990 in the USSR.
 Released in 1980 under the same name, the English-language book of poems by Brodsky only half consists of translations of poems included in the Russian edition of 1977.
 Translation cycle "Part of Speech" in English, made with the participation and edited by Brodsky, including 15 of the 20 cycle of poems, whose order was also changed from the Russian original.
Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky ( ; Russian: Ио́сиф Алекса́ндрович Бро́дский , ] ; 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian and American poet and essayist.
Michael David Herr (April 13, 1940 – June 23, 2016) was an American writer and war correspondent, known as the author of "Dispatches" (1977), a memoir of his time as a correspondent for "Esquire magazine" (1967–1969) during the Vietnam War.
 The book was called the best "to have been written about the Vietnam War" by "The New York Times Book Review"; novelist John le Carré called it "the best book I have ever read on men and war in our time."
 Herr later was credited with pioneering the literary genre of the nonfiction novel, along with authors such as Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and Tom Wolfe.
Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film directed, produced, and co-written by Francis Ford Coppola.
 It was co-written by John Milius with narration written by Michael Herr.
 It stars Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Larry Fishburne, and Dennis Hopper.
 The screenplay, written by Milius, adapts the story of Joseph Conrad's novella "Heart of Darkness", changing its setting from late nineteenth-century Congo to the Vietnam War.
 It draws from Herr's "Dispatches" and Werner Herzog's "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" (1972).
 The film revolves around Captain Benjamin L. Willard (Sheen) on a secret mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz, a renegade who is presumed insane.
Apartment Museum of Joseph Brodsky (Russian: Музей-квартира И.
 А.
 Бродского ) is a memorial museum, created in 2006 on behalf of the governor of St. Petersburg, in order to preserve the memory of the cultural and literary period 1960-1990, the central figure of which is the largest poet and Nobel laureate, Joseph Brodsky.
 The concept of the future exposition deals Anna Akhmatova Museum.
Izabella Akhatovna Akhmadulina (Russian: Бе́лла (Изабе́лла) Аха́товна Ахмаду́лина , Tatar: Белла Әхәт кызы Әхмәдуллина ; 10 April 1937 – 29 November 2010) was a Soviet and Russian poet, short story writer, and translator, known for her apolitical writing stance.
 She was part of the Russian New Wave literary movement.
 She was cited by Joseph Brodsky as the best living poet in the Russian language.
Troika: Russia’s westerly poetry in three orchestral song cycles is a 2011 album of contemporary classical songs performed by soprano Julia Kogan, who also conceived the project.
 She is accompanied by The St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic conducted by Jeffery Meyer.
 The songs are set to Russian, English, and French language poetry by five classic Russian writers: Joseph Brodsky, Mikhail Lermontov, Vladimir Nabokov, Aleksandr Pushkin and Fyodor Tyutchev.
 Eight modern composers, from France, Russia, and the United States, wrote music for the album: Isabelle Aboulker, Ivan Barbotin, Eskender Bekmambetov, Jay Greenberg, James DeMars, Andrey Rubtsov, Michael Schelle and Lev Zhurbin.
Frida Abramovna Vigdorova (16 March 1915, Orsha – 7 August 1965) was a Soviet journalist, novelist and writer.
 She is mostly known for her record of the trial of poet Joseph Brodsky in 1964.

Question: Were Michael Herr and Joseph Brodsky known for their writing?
Answer: yes