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Title: Max Brand Stories,
Date (inclusive): 1917-1963
Collection number: 1284
Creator:
Brand, Max, 1892-1944
Extent:
8 boxes (4 linear ft.)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
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.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library,
Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of
the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC
Regents do not hold the copyright.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Robert Easton, 1977.
[Identification of item], Max Brand Stories (Collection 1284). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Brand, Max, 1892-1944--Archives.
Faust, Frederick Schiller, 1892-1944--Archives.
Authors, American--20th century--Archival resources.
American fiction--20th century.
Western stories.