Frederick Schiller Faust

Frederick Schiller Faust was an American writer known primarily for his Western stories and pulp fiction who wrote under the pseudonym Max Brand. As Max Brand, he created the fictional character of Dr. James Kildare. Other pseudonyms include George Owen Baxter, Evan Evans, George Evans, Peter Dawson, David Manning, John Frederick, Peter Morland, George Challis, Peter Ward, and Frederick Frost. He died after being wounded by shrapnel in 1944 while he was working as a war correspondent in Italy for Harper’s Magazine.