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Max Brand

May 3, 2022 |

Max Brand was a giant who wrote 5 million words at 5 cents a word about mythic cowboy heroes who grow from ordinary people into Homeric heroes in the course of his 250 novels. Faust (one of his 15 pseudonyms) was in writing what Babe Ruth, Red Grange were in sport.

max brand wrote 75 novels, many of them westerns The Untamed and The Black Muldoon, Dr. Kildare. "a good tennis and squash player, he lived in a Olympian villa in Florence, could write a novel in a week, a short story in an hour, i rec." (The Life and Times of Fred Faust)

None of his novels have a locus of place or nature in them like Kelton or Schaefer (or even Lamour) but they are always pure adventure of a Greek-like hero.

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