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{{for|the Swiss footballer|Max Brand (footballer)}}
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{{Short description|American writer (1892–1944)}}
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| pseudonym = Max Brand <br> George Owen Baxter <br> Evan Evans <br> George Evans <br> David Manning <br> John Frederick <br> Peter Morland <br> George Challis <br> Frederick Frost
| pseudonym = Frank Austin<br>George Owen Baxter<br>Lee Bolt<br>Walter C. Butler<br>George Challis<br>Peter Dawson<br>Martin Dexter<br>Evin Evan<br>Evan Evans<br>John Frederick<br>Frederick Frost<br>Dennis Lawson<br>David Manning<br>M.B.<br>Peter Henry Morland<br>Hugh Owen<br>Nicholas Silver
| birth_name = Frederick Schiller Faust
| birth_name = Frederick Schiller Faust
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1892|5|29}}
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1892|5|29}}
| birth_place = [[Seattle]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]]
| birth_place = [[Seattle]], Washington, United States
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[[File:Argosy 19171110.jpg|thumb|right|The "Max Brand" novel ''The Sword Lover'' was serialized in ''[[Argosy (magazine)|The Argosy]]'' during 1917.]]
[[File:Argosy 19181026.jpg|thumb|right|Faust's novel ''The Double Crown'' carried two of Faust's pen names when it was serialized in ''[[Argosy (magazine)|The Argosy]]'' during 1918.]]


'''Frederick Schiller Faust''' (May 29, 1892 – May 12, 1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary [[Western (genre)|Westerns]] under the pen name '''Max Brand'''. Faust (as Max Brand) also created the popular [[fictional character]] of young medical intern [[Dr. Kildare|Dr. James Kildare]] in a series of [[pulp magazine|pulp fiction]] stories.<ref>[http://www.tv.com/shows/dr-kildare/ "Dr. Kildare - NBC (ended 1966)" (entry at TV.com database for 1960s "Dr. Kildare" TV series)], accessed Mar. 28, 2015.</ref> Faust's Kildare character was subsequently featured over several decades in other media, including a series of American theatrical films by [[Paramount Pictures]] and [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] (MGM),<ref name=mavis>[http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/64088/dr-kildare-movie-collection-warner-archive-collection Mavis, Paul. "Dr. Kildare Movie Collection (Warner Archive Collection)" (DVD review).] DVDtalk.com, Mar. 16, 2014, accessed Mar. 29, 2015.</ref> a [[radio]] series,<ref name=digdeli>[http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/DigitalDeliToo/dd2jb-Dr-Kildare.html The Digital Deli Online, "The Story of Dr. Kildare (Radio Program)."] digitaldeliftp.com, accessed Mar. 29, 2015.</ref> two [[television]] series,<ref name=tottv>Mcneil, Alex. ''Total Television: The Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present - Revised Edition.'' Penguin Books, 1996, p. 225. ISBN 978-0140249163.</ref><ref name=ydrtvguide>[http://www.tvguide.com/shows/young-dr-kildare-205675/ "Young Dr. Kildare" overview], TVguide.com, accessed Mar. 29, 2015.</ref> and [[comics]].<ref name=comicbook>[http://www.politedissent.com/index.php?s=dr.+kildare Polite Dissent (blog), "The Brief 'Golden Age of Medical Comics',"] politedissent.com, May 28, 2012, accessed March 29, 2015.</ref><ref name=comicstrip>[http://comicskingdom.com/blog/2012/10/24/ask-the-archivist-calling-dr-kildare The Archivist, "Ask the Archivist: Calling Dr. Kildare."] The Comics Kingdom Blog, comicskingdom.com, October 24, 2012, accessed March 29, 2015.</ref> Faust's other [[pseudonym]]s include George Owen Baxter, Evan Evans, George Evans, David Manning, John Frederick, Peter Morland, George Challis, and Frederick Frost.
'''Frederick Schiller Faust''' (May 29, 1892 – May 12, 1944) was an American writer known primarily for his [[Western (genre)|Western]] stories using the pseudonym '''Max Brand'''. As Max Brand, he also created the popular fictional character of young medical intern [[Dr. Kildare|Dr. James Kildare]] for a series of [[pulp magazine|pulp fiction]] stories.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/dr-kildare/|title=Dr. Kildare – NBC (ended 1966)|publisher=TV.com database|access-date=March 28, 2015|archive-date=March 14, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190314203108/http://www.tv.com/shows/dr-kildare/|url-status=dead}}</ref> 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),<ref name=mavis>[http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/64088/dr-kildare-movie-collection-warner-archive-collection Mavis, Paul. "Dr. Kildare Movie Collection (Warner Archive Collection)" (DVD review).] DVDtalk.com, March 16, 2014. Retrieved March 29, 2015.</ref> a radio series,<ref name=digdeli>[http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/DigitalDeliToo/dd2jb-Dr-Kildare.html The Digital Deli Online, "The Story of Dr. Kildare (Radio Program)."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327050249/http://digitaldeliftp.com/DigitalDeliToo/dd2jb-Dr-Kildare.html |date=March 27, 2014 }} digitaldeliftp.com. Retrieved March 29, 2015.</ref> two television series,<ref name=tottv>Mcneil, Alex. ''Total Television: The Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present – Revised Edition.'' Penguin Books, 1996, p. 225. {{ISBN|978-0140249163}}.</ref><ref name=ydrtvguide>[http://www.tvguide.com/shows/young-dr-kildare-205675/ "Young Dr. Kildare" overview], ''TV Guide''. Retrieved March 29, 2015.</ref> and [[comics]].<ref name=comicbook>[http://www.politedissent.com/index.php?s=dr.+kildare Polite Dissent (blog), "The Brief 'Golden Age of Medical Comics',"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402095528/http://www.politedissent.com/index.php?s=dr.+kildare |date=April 2, 2015 }} politedissent.com, May 28, 2012. Retrieved March 29, 2015.</ref><ref name=comicstrip>[http://comicskingdom.com/blog/2012/10/24/ask-the-archivist-calling-dr-kildare The Archivist, "Ask the Archivist: Calling Dr. Kildare."] The Comics Kingdom Blog, comicskingdom.com, October 24, 2012. Retrieved March 29, 2015.</ref> 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)|Argosy]]'' magazine. The Tizzo saga was a series of [[Historical fiction|historical]] [[swashbuckler]] stories, featuring the titular warrior, set in [[Renaissance Italy]].<ref>William A Bloodworth, ''Max Brand''. New York : G.K. Hall & Co., 1999. {{ISBN|080577646X}} (pp. 136–7).</ref>


==Death==
Faust was born in [[Seattle]] to Gilbert Leander Faust and Louisa Elizabeth (Uriel) Faust, both of whom died when Faust was still a boy. He grew up in central [[California]], and later worked as a [[cowboy|cowhand]] on one of the many ranches of the [[San Joaquin Valley]]. Faust attended the [[University of California, Berkeley]], where he began to write for student publications, poetry magazines, and newspapers. Failing to graduate, Faust joined the [[Canadian Army]] in 1915, but [[Desertion|deserted]] the next year and moved to [[New York City]].
During early 1944, when Faust, [[Frank Gruber]], and fellow author [[Steve Fisher (writer)|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 shell|shrapnel]].<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1944/05/17/archives/kildare-creator-is-killed-in-italy-frederick-faust-who-used-pen.html "Kildare Creator Is Killed in Santa Maria Infante near Minturno Italy"], by Milton Bracker, ''[[The New York Times]]'', May 17, 1944. p. 3. {{subscription required}}</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=QtiYB1rU0lkC&pg=PA40 "A Farewell to Max Brand"], by Steve Fisher, published simultaneously in ''[[Argosy (magazine)|Argosy]]'' and ''[[Writer's Digest]]'', in their August 1944 issues.</ref>


==Titles and series==
During the 1910s, Faust sold stories to the [[pulp magazine]]s of [[Frank Munsey]], including ''All-Story Weekly'' and ''[[Argosy Magazine]]''. When the United States entered [[World War I]] in 1917, Faust tried to enlist but was rejected. He married Dorothy Schillig in 1917, and the couple had three children.
===Dan Barry series===
* ''[[The Untamed (1920 film)|The Untamed]]'' (1919)<ref> "Max Brand Books in Order" Retrieved 24 January 2024 [https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/max-brand/] </ref>
* ''[[The Night Horsemen|The Night Horseman]]'' (1920)
* ''The Seventh Man'' (1921)
* ''Dan Barry's Daughter'' (1923)


===Ronicky Doone Trilogy===
In the 1920s, Faust wrote extensively for pulp magazines, especially [[Street & Smith]]’s ''Western Story Magazine'', a weekly for which he would write over a million words a year under various [[pen names]], often seeing two serials and a [[short novel]] published in a single issue. In 1921, he suffered a severe [[heart attack]], and for the rest of his life suffered from chronic [[heart disease]].
* ''Ronicky Doone'' (1921)
* ''Ronicky Doone's Treasures'' (1922)
* ''Ronicky Doone's Rewards'' (1922)


===Silvertip series===
His love for [[mythology]] was a constant source of inspiration for his fiction, and it has been speculated that these classical influences accounted in some part for his success as a popular writer. Many of his stories would later inspire films. He created the Western character [[Destry Rides Again (novel)|Destry]], featured in several cinematic versions of ''[[Destry Rides Again]]'', and his character [[Dr. Kildare]] was adapted to [[motion picture]]s, radio, television, and [[comic books]].
* ''Silvertip'' (1941)
* ''The Man from Mustang'' (1942)
* ''Silvertip's Strike'' (1942)
* ''Silvertip's Roundup'' (1943)
* ''Silvertip's Trap'' (1943)
* ''The Fighting Four'' (1944)
* ''Silvertip's Chase'' (1944)
* ''Silvertip's Search'' (1945)
* ''The Stolen Stallion'' (1945)
* ''Valley Thieves'' (1946)
* ''Mountain Riders'' (1946)
* ''The Valley of Vanishing Men'' (1947)
* ''The False Rider'' (1947)


===Dr. Kildare series===
In 1934 Faust began to write for upscale, slick magazines, often writing from a villa in Italy. In 1938, due to political events in Europe, he returned with his family to the United States and settled in [[Hollywood]] where he worked as a [[screenwriter]] for a number of [[film studios]]. At one point, [[Warner Brothers]] paid him $3,000 a week (a year’s salary for an average worker at the time), and he made a fortune from [[MGM]]’s Dr. Kildare adaptions. Faust became one of the highest paid writers of his day. Ironically, Faust disparaged his commercial success and used his real name only for the poetry that he regarded as his literary calling.
* ''Interns Can't Take Money'' (1936)
* ''Whiskey Sour'' (1938)
* ''Young Doctor Kildare'' (1938)
* ''Calling Dr. Kildare'' (1939)
* ''The Secret of Dr. Kildare'' (1939)
* ''Dr. Kildare's Girl'' and ''Dr. Kildare's Hardest Case'' (1940)
* ''Dr. Kildare Goes Home'' (1940)
* ''Dr. Kildare's Crisis'' (1941)
* ''The People vs. Dr. Kildare'' (1941)


===Tizzo the Firebrand series===
In 1943, author Frank Gruber met Faust and wrote about him in his book THE PULP JUNGLE (1967). Faust he said was six feet three inches tall and weighed about 200 lbs (of which there was not an ounce of fat) and had enormous hands. He was shy and somewhat aloof. He liked to be called "Heinie" by friends and he was an alcoholic. Amongst other drinks, he put away two quarts of whiskey during an eight hour day. When he went home at five thirty, he had a light supper then got down to "some serious drinking". Faust maintained that the alcohol transported him away to a fantasy world where he could write. He was never "drunk" and was open about his drinking.
* ''The Firebrand'' (1934)
* ''The Great Betrayal'' (1935)
* ''The Storm'' (1935)
* ''The Cat and the Perfume'' (1935)
* ''Claws of the Tigress'' (1935)
* ''The Bait and the Trap'' (1935)
* ''The Pearls of Bonfadini'' (1935)


===Other novels===
Faust had trained himself to do exactly 14 pages of work a day, every day, come what may and did them in two hours, starting at nine thirty in the morning. That added up to a million and a half words a year, for thirty years. Faust's work was all about "originals". He never mastered the technique of adapting an original into a screenplay, which was written by others. This meant he was not a great success in Hollywood. Faust wrote under 15 pseudonames in all.
* ''Above the Law'' (1918)
* ''Devil Ritter'' (1918)
* ''Harrigan!'' (1918)
* ''Riders of the Silences'' (1919)
* ''Trailin'!'' (1919)
* ''The Man Who Forgot Christmas'' (1920)
* ''The Ghost'' (''The Ghost Rides Tonight!'') (1920) [writing as Frederick Faust]
* ''Black Jack'' (1921)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Brand |first1=Max |title=Black Jack |date=October 1976 |publisher=Pocket Books |quote=Copyright, 1921, 1922, . . . renewed . . . by Dorothy Faust.}}</ref>
* ''Bull Hunter'' (1921)
* ''Donnegan'' (''Gunman's Reckoning'') (1921)
* ''The Long, Long Trail'' (1921)
* ''Sheriff Larrabee's Prisoner'' (1921)
* ''A Shower of Silver'' (1921)
* ''Way of the Lawless'' (1921)
* ''Alcatraz'' (1922)
* ''Gun Gentlemen'' (1922)
* ''The Rangeland Avenger'' (1922)
* ''The Garden of Eden'' (1922)
* ''The Lost Valley'' (1922)
* ''Wild Freedom'' (1922)
* ''His Name His Fortune'' (1923) [writing as Frederick Faust]
* ''Outlaw Breed'' (1923)
* ''The Quest of Lee Garrison'' (1923)
* ''The Gold King Turns His Back'' (1923) [writing as John Frederick]
* ''Rodeo Ranch'' (1923)
* ''Rustlers of Beacon Creek'' (''The Winged Horse'') (1923)
* ''Soft Metal'' (1923)
* ''"Sunset" Wins'' (1923) [writing as George Owen Baxter]
* ''Timber Line'' (1923)
* ''Under His Shirt'' (1923)
* ''The Gambler'' (1924)
* ''The Tenderfoot'' (1924)
* ''The Smiling Desperado'' (1924)
* ''The Whispering Outlaw'' (a.k.a. ''The Whisperer of the Wilderness'') (1924)
* ''The Brute'' (1925) [writing as David Manning]
* ''Jim Curry's Test'' (1925)
* ''The Black Rider'' (1925) [writing as George Owen Baxter]
* ''In the River Bottom's Grip'' (1925) [writing as David Manning]
* ''His Fight for Pardon'' (1925) [writing as George Owen Baxter]
* ''Acres of Unrest'' (1926)
* ''Fate's Honeymoon'' (1926)
* ''Fire-Brain (1926)
* ''Werewolf'' (1926)
* ''The Iron Trail'' (1926)
* ''The Outlaw Tamer'' (1926)
* ''The White Cheyenne'' (1926)
* ''Trouble Trail'' (1926)
* ''Pleasant Jim'' (1926)
* ''The Blue Jay'' (1926)<ref>"The Blue Jay" Retrieved 24 January 2024 [https://archive.org/details/bluejay0000bran]</ref>
* ''Single Jack'' (1926, 1927)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Brand |first1=Max |title=Single Jack |date=August 1953 |publisher=Pocket Books |id=Pocket 950 |quote=Copyright, 1926, 1927, by the Estate of Frederick Faust.}}</ref>
* ''Sawdust and Sixguns'' (1927)
* ''The Mountain Fugitive'' (1927)
* ''The Mustang Herder'' (1927)
* ''The Pride of Tyson'' (1927)
* ''Thunder Moon Strikes'' (1927)
* ''Border Guns'' (1928)
* ''Hunted Riders'' (1928)
* ''Pillar Mountain'' (1928)
* ''The Gun Tamer'' (1928)
* ''The Sheriff Rides'' (''Silver Trail'') (1928)
* ''Tragedy Trail'' (1928)
* ''King of the Range'' (a.k.a. ''Strength of the Hills'') (1929)
* ''Tiger Man'' (1929)
* ''The Seven of Diamonds'' (1929)
* ''Destry Rides Again'' (1930) (adapted to films of the same name in [[Destry Rides Again (1932 film)|1932]] and [[Destry_Rides_Again|1939]])
* ''Marbleface'' (a.k.a. ''Pokerface''; ''The Tough Tender foot'') (1930)
* ''Sixteen in Nome'' (1930)
* ''The Hair-Trigger Kid'' (1931)
* ''The Killers'' (1931)
* ''Lucky Larribee'' (1932)
* ''The Boy Who Found Christmas'' (1932)
* ''The Lightning Warrior'' (a.k.a. ''The White Wolf'') (1932)
* ''Trail Partners'' (1932)
* ''The Two-Handed Man'' (1932)
* ''Blood on the Trail'' (1933)
* ''Gunman's Gold'' (1933)
* ''Rider of the High Hill'' (1933)
* ''The King Bird Rides'' (''Kingbird's Pursuit'') (1933)
* ''The Red Bandanna'' (1933)
* ''The Stage to Yellow Creek'' (1933)
* ''The Whisperer: A Reata Story'' (1933) [writing as George Owen Baxter]
* ''Red Devil of the Range'' (a.k.a. ''The Red Pacer''; ''Horseback Hellion''; ''The Man from Savage Creek'') (1933)
* ''Crooked Horn'' (1934)
* ''Cheyenne Gold'' (1935)
* ''Montana Rides Again'' (1935)
* ''Six-Gun Country'' (1935)
* ''The Song of the Whip'' (1936)
* ''Happy Jack'' (1936)
* ''Singing Guns'' (1938)
* ''The Dude'' (1940)


{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/tenfootchainorca00abdurich |first1=Achmed |last1=Abdullah |authorlink1=Achmed Abdullah|first2=Max |last2=Brand |authorlink2=Max Brand|first3=E.K. |last3=Means |authorlink3=Eldred Kurtz Means |first4=Perley Poore |last4=Sheehan |location=New York |authorlink4=Perley Poore Sheehan|publisher=[[Reynolds Publishing Company]] |year=1920 |title=The Ten Foot Chain: Can Love Survive the Shackles? {{mdash}} A Unique Symposium}}
When [[World War II]] began, Faust insisted on doing his part, and despite being well into middle age and having a heart condition, managed to become a [[front line]] [[war correspondent]]. Soldiers with whom he served reportedly enjoyed having this popular author among them. While traveling with American soldiers fighting in Italy in 1944, Faust was mortally wounded by [[Shrapnel shell|shrapnel]].<ref>"Kildare Creator Is Killed In Italy," by Milton Bracker, ''[[The New York Times]]'', May 17, 1944.</ref><ref>"A Farewell To Max Brand," by [[Steve Fisher (writer)|Steve Fisher]], published simultaneously in ''[[Argosy (magazine)|Argosy]]'' and ''[[Writer's Digest]]'', in their August 1944 issues.</ref> He was personally commended for bravery by President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]. Historian Arthur Herman recommends his book ''Fighter Squadron at Guadalcanal'' with enthusiasm (''New York Post'', June 2, 2012).


==Works==
== See also ==
* {{Portal-inline|Biography}}
{{About|Westerns authored by Max Brand|information about Max Brand's medical drama stories featuring his "Dr. Kildare" character|Dr. Kildare|section=yes}}

===Harrigan (1918)===
With gusts of wind fanning it roughly, the flame rose fast. Harrigan made other journeys to the rotten stump and wrenched away great chunks of bark and wood. He came back and piled them on the fire. It towered high, the upper tongues twisting among the branches of the tree. They laid Kate Malone between the windbreak and the fire. In a short time her trembling ceased; she turned her face to the blaze and slept.

Published in: 1918

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===Riders of the Silence (1919)===
The Great West prior to the century's turn abounded in legend. Stories were told of fabled gunmen whose bullets always magically found their mark of mighty stallions whose tireless gallop rivaled the speed of the wind of glorious women whose beauty stunned mind and heart. But nowhere in the vast spread of the mountain-desert country was there a greater legend told than the story of Red Pierre and the phantom gunfighter McGurk.

Published in: 1919

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===The Untamed (1919)===
Brand's career as an author of Westerns began with this tale set in an otherworldly Wild West, which first appeared as a serial in All-Story magazine and was soon transformed into a film starring Tom Mix.

Published in: 1919

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===The Night Horseman (1920)===
At the age of six Randall Byrne could name and bound every state in the Union and give the date of its admission; at nine he was conversant with Homeric Greek and Caesar; at twelve he read Aristophanes with perfect understanding of the allusions of the day and divided his leisure between Ovid and Horace; at fifteen, wearied by the simplicity of Old English and Thirteenth Century Italian, he dipped into the history of Philosophy and passed from that, naturally, into calculus and the higher mathematics; at eighteen he took an A.B. from Harvard and while idling away a pleasant summer with Hebrew and Sanscrit he delved lightly into biology and its kindred sciences, having reached the conclusion that Truth is greater than Goodness or Beauty, because it comprises both, and the whole is greater than any of its parts; at twenty-one he pocketed his Ph.D. and was touched with the fever of his first practical enthusiasm—surgery.

Published in: 1920

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===Ronicky Doone (1921)===
Doone had won the respect of every law-abiding citizen, from Tombstone to Sonora—and the hatred of every bushwacking bandit! But Bill Gregg wasn't one to let a living legend get in his way. What nobody told Gregg was that Doone didn't enjoy living up to his hard-riding, rip-roaring life—unless he took a chance at losing it once in a while.

Published in: 1921

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===The Seventh Man (1921)===
"A man under thirty needs neighbors and to stop up the current of his life with a long silence is like obstructing a river—eventually the water either sweeps away the dam or rises over it, and the stronger the dam the more destructive is that final rush to freedom. Vic Gregg was on the danger side of thirty and he lived alone in the mountains all that winter. "

Published in: 1921

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===Alcatraz (1922)===
An American Western Classic! The west wind came over the Eagles, gathered purity from the evergreen slopes of the mountains, blew across the foothills and league wide fields, and came at length to the stallion with a touch of coolness and enchanting scents of far-off things. Just as his head went up, just as the breeze lifted mane and tail, Marianne Jordan halted her pony and drew in her breath with pleasure. Find out why the Saturday Review called this work, "nobly planned, nobly felt, nobly written"; the New York Times, "exceptionally solid--worked out with flawless skill"; and the New York Herald Tribune, "stirring"! Brand was one of America's most popular and prolific novelists and author of such enduring works as the Doctor Kildare stories-he died a hero on the Italian front in 1944, being personally commended for bravery by President Roosevelt. Add this exciting American classic to your Western library today!

Published in: 1922

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===Black Jack (1922)===
The raucous beginning of Brand's Western is traditional: A gunfighter is shot dead in the street. However, when spinster Elizabeth Cornish takes his baby to raise and wagers with her brother that blood will not "will out"—that Jack's son will not be a murderer—a fascinating story of nature versus nurture emerges.

Published in: 1922

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===The Rangeland Avenger (1922)===
And maybe I ain't. Sinclair brushed the entire argument away into a thin mist of smoke. "Now, look here, Cold Feet, I'm about to go to sleep, and when I sleep, I sure sleep sound, taking it by and large. They's times when I don't more'n close one eye all night, and they's times when you'd have to pull my eyes open, one by one, to wake me up. Understand? I'm going to sleep the second way tonight. About eight hours of the soundest sleep you ever heard tell of."

Published in: 1922

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==Legacy==
Faust rivalled [[Edgar Wallace]] and [[Isaac Asimov]] as one of the most prolific authors of all time. He wrote more than 500 novels for magazines and almost as many shorter stories. His total literary output is estimated to have been between 25,000,000 and 30,000,000 words. Most of his books and stories were produced at a breakneck pace, which sometimes amounted to 12,000 words in one weekend. New books based on [[magazine serial]]s or previously unpublished works authored by him continue to appear, so that Faust has averaged a new book every four months for seventy-five years. Moreover, some work by him is reprinted every week each year, in one format or another, somewhere in the world.


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*[http://www.maxbrandonline.com/ Max Brand official website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20190105024014/http://www.maxbrandonline.com/ Max Brand official website]
*[http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7c60063q/ Guide to the Frederick Schiller Faust Papers] at [[The Bancroft Library]]
* [https://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7c60063q/ Guide to the Frederick Schiller Faust Papers] at [[The Bancroft Library]]
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|DATE OF DEATH= May 12, 1944
|PLACE OF DEATH= Italy
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For the Swiss footballer, see Max Brand (footballer).

Max Brand
BornFrederick Schiller Faust
(1892-05-29)May 29, 1892
Seattle, Washington, United States
DiedMay 12, 1944(1944-05-12) (aged 51)
Minturno (Santa Maria Infante), Italy
Resting placeUnited States
Pen nameFrank 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
OccupationWriter, author
Alma materUniversity of California
GenreWestern
SpouseDorothy Schillig
RelativesGilbert 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 historical swashbuckler stories, featuring the titular warrior, set in Renaissance Italy.[8]

Death

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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]

Titles and series

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Dan Barry series

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Ronicky Doone Trilogy

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  • Ronicky Doone (1921)
  • Ronicky Doone's Treasures (1922)
  • Ronicky Doone's Rewards (1922)

Silvertip series

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  • Silvertip (1941)
  • The Man from Mustang (1942)
  • Silvertip's Strike (1942)
  • Silvertip's Roundup (1943)
  • Silvertip's Trap (1943)
  • The Fighting Four (1944)
  • Silvertip's Chase (1944)
  • Silvertip's Search (1945)
  • The Stolen Stallion (1945)
  • Valley Thieves (1946)
  • Mountain Riders (1946)
  • The Valley of Vanishing Men (1947)
  • The False Rider (1947)

Dr. Kildare series

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  • Interns Can't Take Money (1936)
  • Whiskey Sour (1938)
  • Young Doctor Kildare (1938)
  • Calling Dr. Kildare (1939)
  • The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939)
  • Dr. Kildare's Girl and Dr. Kildare's Hardest Case (1940)
  • Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940)
  • Dr. Kildare's Crisis (1941)
  • The People vs. Dr. Kildare (1941)

Tizzo the Firebrand series

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  • The Firebrand (1934)
  • The Great Betrayal (1935)
  • The Storm (1935)
  • The Cat and the Perfume (1935)
  • Claws of the Tigress (1935)
  • The Bait and the Trap (1935)
  • The Pearls of Bonfadini (1935)

Other novels

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  • Above the Law (1918)
  • Devil Ritter (1918)
  • Harrigan! (1918)
  • Riders of the Silences (1919)
  • Trailin'! (1919)
  • The Man Who Forgot Christmas (1920)
  • The Ghost (The Ghost Rides Tonight!) (1920) [writing as Frederick Faust]
  • Black Jack (1921)[12]
  • Bull Hunter (1921)
  • Donnegan (Gunman's Reckoning) (1921)
  • The Long, Long Trail (1921)
  • Sheriff Larrabee's Prisoner (1921)
  • A Shower of Silver (1921)
  • Way of the Lawless (1921)
  • Alcatraz (1922)
  • Gun Gentlemen (1922)
  • The Rangeland Avenger (1922)
  • The Garden of Eden (1922)
  • The Lost Valley (1922)
  • Wild Freedom (1922)
  • His Name His Fortune (1923) [writing as Frederick Faust]
  • Outlaw Breed (1923)
  • The Quest of Lee Garrison (1923)
  • The Gold King Turns His Back (1923) [writing as John Frederick]
  • Rodeo Ranch (1923)
  • Rustlers of Beacon Creek (The Winged Horse) (1923)
  • Soft Metal (1923)
  • "Sunset" Wins (1923) [writing as George Owen Baxter]
  • Timber Line (1923)
  • Under His Shirt (1923)
  • The Gambler (1924)
  • The Tenderfoot (1924)
  • The Smiling Desperado (1924)
  • The Whispering Outlaw (a.k.a. The Whisperer of the Wilderness) (1924)
  • The Brute (1925) [writing as David Manning]
  • Jim Curry's Test (1925)
  • The Black Rider (1925) [writing as George Owen Baxter]
  • In the River Bottom's Grip (1925) [writing as David Manning]
  • His Fight for Pardon (1925) [writing as George Owen Baxter]
  • Acres of Unrest (1926)
  • Fate's Honeymoon (1926)
  • Fire-Brain (1926)
  • Werewolf (1926)
  • The Iron Trail (1926)
  • The Outlaw Tamer (1926)
  • The White Cheyenne (1926)
  • Trouble Trail (1926)
  • Pleasant Jim (1926)
  • The Blue Jay (1926)[13]
  • Single Jack (1926, 1927)[14]
  • Sawdust and Sixguns (1927)
  • The Mountain Fugitive (1927)
  • The Mustang Herder (1927)
  • The Pride of Tyson (1927)
  • Thunder Moon Strikes (1927)
  • Border Guns (1928)
  • Hunted Riders (1928)
  • Pillar Mountain (1928)
  • The Gun Tamer (1928)
  • The Sheriff Rides (Silver Trail) (1928)
  • Tragedy Trail (1928)
  • King of the Range (a.k.a. Strength of the Hills) (1929)
  • Tiger Man (1929)
  • The Seven of Diamonds (1929)
  • Destry Rides Again (1930) (adapted to films of the same name in 1932 and 1939)
  • Marbleface (a.k.a. Pokerface; The Tough Tender foot) (1930)
  • Sixteen in Nome (1930)
  • The Hair-Trigger Kid (1931)
  • The Killers (1931)
  • Lucky Larribee (1932)
  • The Boy Who Found Christmas (1932)
  • The Lightning Warrior (a.k.a. The White Wolf) (1932)
  • Trail Partners (1932)
  • The Two-Handed Man (1932)
  • Blood on the Trail (1933)
  • Gunman's Gold (1933)
  • Rider of the High Hill (1933)
  • The King Bird Rides (Kingbird's Pursuit) (1933)
  • The Red Bandanna (1933)
  • The Stage to Yellow Creek (1933)
  • The Whisperer: A Reata Story (1933) [writing as George Owen Baxter]
  • Red Devil of the Range (a.k.a. The Red Pacer; Horseback Hellion; The Man from Savage Creek) (1933)
  • Crooked Horn (1934)
  • Cheyenne Gold (1935)
  • Montana Rides Again (1935)
  • Six-Gun Country (1935)
  • The Song of the Whip (1936)
  • Happy Jack (1936)
  • Singing Guns (1938)
  • The Dude (1940)

Abdullah, Achmed; Brand, Max; Means, E.K.; Sheehan, Perley Poore (1920). The Ten Foot Chain: Can Love Survive the Shackles? — A Unique Symposium. New York: Reynolds Publishing Company.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Dr. Kildare – NBC (ended 1966)". TV.com database. Archived from the original on March 14, 2019. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  2. ^ Mavis, Paul. "Dr. Kildare Movie Collection (Warner Archive Collection)" (DVD review). DVDtalk.com, March 16, 2014. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
  3. ^ The Digital Deli Online, "The Story of Dr. Kildare (Radio Program)." Archived March 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine digitaldeliftp.com. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
  4. ^ Mcneil, Alex. Total Television: The Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present – Revised Edition. Penguin Books, 1996, p. 225. ISBN 978-0140249163.
  5. ^ "Young Dr. Kildare" overview, TV Guide. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
  6. ^ Polite Dissent (blog), "The Brief 'Golden Age of Medical Comics'," Archived April 2, 2015, at the Wayback Machine politedissent.com, May 28, 2012. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
  7. ^ The Archivist, "Ask the Archivist: Calling Dr. Kildare." The Comics Kingdom Blog, comicskingdom.com, October 24, 2012. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
  8. ^ William A Bloodworth, Max Brand. New York : G.K. Hall & Co., 1999. ISBN 080577646X (pp. 136–7).
  9. ^ "Kildare Creator Is Killed in Santa Maria Infante near Minturno Italy", by Milton Bracker, The New York Times, May 17, 1944. p. 3. (subscription required)
  10. ^ "A Farewell to Max Brand", by Steve Fisher, published simultaneously in Argosy and Writer's Digest, in their August 1944 issues.
  11. ^ "Max Brand Books in Order" Retrieved 24 January 2024 [1]
  12. ^ Brand, Max (October 1976). Black Jack. Pocket Books. Copyright, 1921, 1922, . . . renewed . . . by Dorothy Faust.
  13. ^ "The Blue Jay" Retrieved 24 January 2024 [2]
  14. ^ Brand, Max (August 1953). Single Jack. Pocket Books. Pocket 950. Copyright, 1926, 1927, by the Estate of Frederick Faust.
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