Frederick Faust
Personal Information
Description
Frederick Schiller Faust was born in Seattle. He was orphaned at an early age and raised in central California. He worked as a cowhand in the San Joaquin Valley, then went on to attend the University of California at Berkeley. He did not finish university, but did begin to write while there. After leaving university, he traveled, spent a year in the Canadian army, and then moved to New York City in 1916. He began writing for pulp magazines. In 1934 he started placing his fiction in slick magazines, and in 1938 he and his family moved to Hollywood, California, where he wrote film scripts for several studios. When World War II began he became a war correspondent. He died of shrapnel injuries during the war. Over the course of his life Faust wrote more than 500 novels for magazines and almost that many short stories as well. He is best known for his Western stories which he wrote under the pen name "Max Brand". Faust disparaged his commercial success and used his own name only for his poetry.
Books
Rancher's legacy
A young man out to avenge the death of his father is framed for murder by the very man he's been tracking. With a bounty on his head, who can he trust? And will justice ever be served?
Love of danger
"Fernald had been raised from childhood by his uncle with endless tales about the great days of the Wild West and the escapades of his father and Wild Bill - with a certain vagueness about which side of the law Fernald's father was on. But he had left enough money to send the boy to college. Now Robert is back in the West with no ambition but to pursue exploits like those he grew up hearing about."--Back cover of (hbk.).