Black Jack

Black Jack

by Max Brand
Black Jack

Black Jack

by Max Brand

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Overview

Classic western. According to Wikipedia: "Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 - May 12, 1944) was an American fiction author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns. Faust wrote mostly under pen names, and today is primarily known by one, Max Brand. Others include George Owen Baxter, Evan Evans, David Manning, John Frederick, Peter Morland, George Challis, and Frederick Frost. ... Faust managed a massive outpouring of fiction, rivaling Edgar Wallace and especially 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 New books based on magazine serials or unpublished manuscripts or restored versions continue to appear so that he has averaged a new book every four months for seventy-five years.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 or another format somewhere in the world."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781455361113
Publisher: Seltzer Books
Publication date: 09/13/2016
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 534 KB

About the Author

Frederick Faust (May 29, 1892 - May 12, 1944) was an American writer known basically for his Western stories using the pen name of Max Brand. Faust made the well-known fictitious character of He wrote the character of young Dr. James Kildare for a series of fiction stories. Faust's other pen names were George Owen Baxter, Evan Evans, George Evans, Peter Dawson, David Monitoring, John Frederick, Peter Morland, George Challis, Peter Ward, Frederick Faust, and Frederick Frost. During mid-1944, when Faust, Frank Gruber, and fellow writer Steve Fisher were working at Warner Brothers, they frequently had discussions during evenings, alongside a Colonel Nee, who was a specialized advisor sent from Washington, D.C. One day, accused of whiskey, Faust discussed getting assigned to a company of foot troopers so he could encounter the war and later compose a war novel. Colonel Nee said he could fix it for himself and half a month after the fact he did, getting Faust a task for Harper's Magazine as a war reporter in Italy. While going with American warriors battling in Italy in 1944, Faust was injured mortally by shrapnel.
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