Max Brand

For the Swiss footballer, see Max Brand (footballer).

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]

Max Brand
Born	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
Occupation	Writer, author
Alma mater	University of California
Genre	Western
Spouse	Dorothy Schillig
Relatives	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.

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]

Titles and series

Dan Barry series

• The Untamed (1919)^[11]
• The Night Horseman (1920)
• The Seventh Man (1921)
• Dan Barry's Daughter (1923)

Ronicky Doone Trilogy

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

Silvertip series

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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)
• In the River Bottom's Grip (1925)
• 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 Tenderfoot] (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

•   Biography portal

References

1. . 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)." 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'," 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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• Guide to the Frederick Schiller Faust Papers at The Bancroft Library
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