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- Frederick Schiller Faust was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns. Faust wrote mostly under pen names, but today is primarily known by only one, Max Brand. Others include George Owen Baxter, George Evans, David Manning, John Frederick, Peter Morland, George Challis, and Frederick Frost. Faust was born in Seattle to Gilbert Leander Faust and Elizabeth (Uriel) Faust, who both died soon after. He grew up in central California, and later worked as a cowhand on one of the many ranches of the San Joaquin Valley. Faust attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he began to write prolifically for student publications, poetry magazines, and, occasionally, newspapers. He did not attain a degree, as he was deemed a troublemaker, whereupon he began to travel extensively. He joined the Canadian Army in 1915, but deserted the next year and went to New York City. During the 1910s, Faust started to sell stories to the pulp magazines of Frank Munsey, including All-Story Weekly and Argosy Magazine. When the United States joined World War I in 1917, Faust tried to enlist but was turned down. He married Dorothy Schillig in 1917, and the couple had three children. 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. His love for mythology was a constant source of inspiration for his fiction, and it might be that his classical influences, as well as his literary inclinations, are part of the reason for his success at genre fiction. The classical influences are certainly noticeable in his stories, many of which would inspire films. He created the Western character Destry, featured in several filmed versions of Destry Rides Again, and his character Dr. Kildare was adapted to motion pictures, radio, television, and comic books. Beginning in 1934 Faust began publishing fiction in upscale slick magazines that paid better than pulp magazines. In 1938, due to political events in Europe, Faust returned with his family to the United States, settling in Hollywood, working as a screenwriter for a number of film studios. At one point Warner Brothers was paying him $3,000 a week (at a time when that might be a year’s salary for an average worker), and he made a fortune from MGM’s use of the Dr. Kildare stories. He was one of the highest paid writers of that time. Ironically, Faust disparaged his commercial success and used his own name only for the poetry that he regarded as his true vocation. When World War II broke out, Faust insisted on doing his part, and despite being well into middle age and having a heart condition, he managed to become a front line war correspondent. Faust was quite famous, and the soldiers enjoyed having this popular author among them. While traveling with American soldiers as they battled in Italy in 1944, Faust was mortally wounded by shrapnel. He was personally commended for bravery by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Faust managed a massive outpouring of fiction, rivaling 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 stories of shorter length. 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 turned out at breakneck rate, sometimes as quickly as 12,000 words in the course of a weekend. New books based on magazine serials or were previously unpublished continue to appear, so that Faust has averaged a new book every four months for seventy-five years. Beyond this, some work by him is newly reprinted every week of every year, in one format or another, somewhere in the world.
- Frederick Schiller Faust war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und Drehbuchautor, vor allem im Westerngenre. Er schrieb unter verschiedenen Pseudonymen wie: Max Brand, George Owen Baxter, Martin Dexter, Evin Evans, David Manning, Peter Dawson, John Frederick und Pete Morland, sowie unter seinem Geburtsnamen. Im deutschsprachigen Raum wurden seine Werke ausschließlich unter dem Pseudonym Max Brand veröffentlicht.
- Max Brand, vlastním jménem Frederick Schiller Faust byl populární americký spisovatel westernů. Frederick Schiller Faust psal většinou pod různými pseudonymy (např. George Owen Baxter, Evan Evans, David Manning), ale dnes je známý pouze jako Max Brand. Narodil se v Seattle, vyrůstal v centrální Kalifornii a později pracoval jak honák krav na jedné z mnoha místních farem. Studoval na kalifornské univerzitě v Berkeley, ale nedosáhl titulu, protože byl jako domnělý výtržník vyloučen. Už na škole začal psát své příběhy, které poměrně úspěšně prodával do novin a časopisů a stal se brzo populární, zejména jako autor dobrodružných příběhů z Divokého západu. Kromě toho psal také filmové scénáře pro Hollywood a hodně cestoval. Za Druhé světové války působil jako válečný dopisovatel a při bojích v Itálii byl smrtelně raněn. Za svůj život napsal Max Brand víc než 500 románů a povídek nejrůznějších žánrů, dodnes však přežili pouze jeho literární westerny založené na osobní znalosti práce kovboje a na velice dobrém propracování charakterů jednajících postav.
- マックス・ブランド（Max Brand、1892年5月29日 - 1944年5月12日）は、アメリカ合衆国ワシントン州シアトル生まれの作家、脚本家。 本名、フレデリック・シラー・ファウスト(Frederick Schiller Faust)。 他のペンネームに、ジョージ・オーエン・バクスター(George Owen Baxter)、マーティン・デクスター(Martin Dexter)、エヴィン・エヴァンズ(Evin Evans)、デイビッド・マニング(David Manning)、ピーター・ドーソン(Peter Dawson)、ジョン・フレデリック(John Frederick)、ピート・モーランド(Pete Morland)などがある。 エドガー・ウォーレスやアイザック・アシモフと並ぶ多作の作家として知られ、500以上の小説を発表。生涯に2千5百万から3千万語を記したと推定される。毎週末ごとにおよそ1万2000語の作品を一本書き上げていたという。
- Max Brand (prawdziwe nazwisko Frederick Schiller Faust, używał też pseudonimów George Owen Baxter, George Evans, David Manning, John Frederick, Peter Morland, George Challis,Evan Evans oraz Frederick Frost) (ur. 29 maja 1892, zm. 12 maja 1944), amerykański pisarz i dziennikarz, twórca głównie powieściowych westernów. W okresie drugiej wojny światowej korespondent wojenny we Włoszech, gdzie zginął.
- Макс Брэнд, настоящее имя Фредерик Шиллер Фауст, некоторый другие псевдонимы George Owen Baxter, Evan Evans, David Manning, John Frederick, Peter Morland, George Challis, Frederick Frost (всего 19) — американский писатель, считающийся одним из лучших авторов, работавших в жанре вестерн. Всего им написано около 500 произведений, из них 300 — в данном жанре.
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- Frederick Schiller Faust was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns. Faust wrote mostly under pen names, but today is primarily known by only one, Max Brand. Others include George Owen Baxter, George Evans, David Manning, John Frederick, Peter Morland, George Challis, and Frederick Frost. Faust was born in Seattle to Gilbert Leander Faust and Elizabeth (Uriel) Faust, who both died soon after.
- Frederick Schiller Faust war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und Drehbuchautor, vor allem im Westerngenre. Er schrieb unter verschiedenen Pseudonymen wie: Max Brand, George Owen Baxter, Martin Dexter, Evin Evans, David Manning, Peter Dawson, John Frederick und Pete Morland, sowie unter seinem Geburtsnamen. Im deutschsprachigen Raum wurden seine Werke ausschließlich unter dem Pseudonym Max Brand veröffentlicht.
- Max Brand, vlastním jménem Frederick Schiller Faust byl populární americký spisovatel westernů. Frederick Schiller Faust psal většinou pod různými pseudonymy (např. George Owen Baxter, Evan Evans, David Manning), ale dnes je známý pouze jako Max Brand. Narodil se v Seattle, vyrůstal v centrální Kalifornii a později pracoval jak honák krav na jedné z mnoha místních farem.
- Max Brand (prawdziwe nazwisko Frederick Schiller Faust, używał też pseudonimów George Owen Baxter, George Evans, David Manning, John Frederick, Peter Morland, George Challis,Evan Evans oraz Frederick Frost) (ur. 29 maja 1892, zm. 12 maja 1944), amerykański pisarz i dziennikarz, twórca głównie powieściowych westernów. W okresie drugiej wojny światowej korespondent wojenny we Włoszech, gdzie zginął.
- Макс Брэнд, настоящее имя Фредерик Шиллер Фауст, некоторый другие псевдонимы George Owen Baxter, Evan Evans, David Manning, John Frederick, Peter Morland, George Challis, Frederick Frost (всего 19) — американский писатель, считающийся одним из лучших авторов, работавших в жанре вестерн.
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