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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Max Brand stories
Creator:
Brand, Max
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1284
Physical Description:
4.0 Linear Feet
(8 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1917-1963
Abstract: Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944), best known as Max Brand, was an author of western novels such as
Destry rides again (1930),
Singing guns (1938), and
Danger trail (1940). He also wrote spy and crime novels under the pseudonyms Frederick Frost and Walter C. Butler including
Calling Dr. Kildare (1940) and its sequels. The collection consists of stories clipped from pulp magazines written by Faust under his various
pseudonyms.
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Robert Easton, 1977.
[Identification of item], Max Brand Stories (Collection 1284). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Processed by Kayla Landesman and M. Markman, December 1981.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
997094593606533
Frederick Schiller Faust was born in Seattle, Washington on May 29, 1892; best known as Max Brand, author of western novels
such as
Destry rides again (1930),
Singing guns (1938), and
Danger trail (1940); also wrote spy and crime novels under pseudonyms Frederick Frost and Walter C. Butler; wrote
Calling Dr. Kildare (1940) and its sequels, and worked on films based on them; published poetry,
The village street and other poems (1922) and
Dionysus in Hades (1931); killed while a war correspondent for
Harper's at Santa Maria Infante, Italy, May 12, 1944.
Collection consists of stories written by Frederick Schiller Faust under his various pseudonyms: Max Brand, George Owen Baxter,
Martin Dexter, John Frederick, Peter Moreland, David Manning, Evan Evans, George Challis, and Dennis Lawton. Most of the stories
were clipped from pulp magazines.
A collection of stories written for pulp magazines by Faust under his pseudonyms: Max Brand, George Owen Baxter, Martin Dexter,
John Frederick, Peter Moreland, David Manning, Evan Evans, George Challis, and Dennis Lawton. The collection is arranged chronologically
and many of the stories have been clipped out of various pulps.
Arranged in the following series:
- Collection arranged chronologically.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Western stories.
American fiction -- 20th century.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Archives.
Faust, Frederick Schiller
Brand, Max, 1892-1944--Archives.
Faust, Frederick Schiller, 1892-1944--Archives.