biography
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Traven, B
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pseudonym of Albert Otto Max Frege
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pronunciation:
[trayvn]
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| male
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| lived:
| (?1882/90–1969)
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| biography:
| Writer of adventure stories, who claimed he was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA, but was probably born in 1882 in Zwiebodzin, W Poland (formerly Germany). He wrote Der Shatz der Sierra Madre (1935, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre), on which the celebrated film by John Huston is based. Little is known about his background, but he lived in Mexico during the 1930s and later. Most of his novels were first published in Germany, such as Das Todenschiff (1926, The Death Ship) and Die Rebellion der Gehenklen (1936, The Rebellion of the Hanged). He probably used several different names, including (Benick) Traven Torsvan, Ret Marut, and Hal Groves, under which name he died. |
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