Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-05-29)May 29, 1892 Seattle, Washington, United States
Died
May 12, 1944(1944-05-12) (aged 51) Minturno (Santa Maria Infante), Italy
Resting place
United States
Pen name
Frank Austin George Owen Baxter Lee Bolt Walter C. Butler George Challis Peter Dawson Martin Dexter Evin Evan Evan Evans John Frederick Frederick Frost Dennis Lawson David Manning M.B. Peter Henry Morland Hugh Owen Nicholas Silver
Gilbert Leander Faust (father) Louisa Elizabeth (Uriel) Faust (mother)
The "Max Brand" novel The Sword Lover was serialized in The Argosy during 1917.Faust's novel The Double Crown carried two of Faust's pen names when it was serialized in The Argosy during 1918.
Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 – May 12, 1944) was an American writer known primarily for his Western stories using the pseudonym Max Brand. As Max Brand, he also created the popular fictional character of young medical intern Dr. James Kildare for a series of pulp fiction stories.[1] His Kildare character was subsequently featured over several decades in other media, including a series of American theatrical movies by Paramount Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM),[2] a radio series,[3] two television series,[4][5] and comics.[6][7] Faust's other pseudonyms include George Owen Baxter, Evan Evans, Peter Dawson, David Manning, John Frederick, Peter Henry Morland, George Challis, and Frederick Frost. He also wrote under his real name. As George Challis, Faust wrote the "Tizzo the Firebrand" series for Argosy magazine. The Tizzo saga was a series of historicalswashbuckler stories, featuring the titular warrior, set in Renaissance Italy.[8]
Death
During early 1944, when Faust, Frank Gruber, and fellow author Steve Fisher were working at Warner Brothers, they often had idle conversations during afternoons, along with a Colonel Nee, who was a technical advisor sent from Washington, D.C. One day, charged with whiskey, Faust talked of getting assigned to a company of foot soldiers so he could experience the war and later write a war novel. Colonel Nee said he could fix it for him and some weeks later he did, getting Faust an assignment for Harper's Magazine as a war correspondent in Italy. While traveling with American soldiers fighting in Italy in 1944, Faust was wounded mortally by shrapnel.[9][10]
^Mcneil, Alex. Total Television: The Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present – Revised Edition. Penguin Books, 1996, p. 225. ISBN978-0140249163.
