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B. Traven
(1890—1969)
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(?1882–1969),
novelist and short‐story writer, whose first stories (The Cottonpickers) appeared in German in Berlin in 1925. His successful novel The Death Ship (1925) recounts the wanderings of an American seaman after the First World War, bereft of passport and nationality. Traven, whose identity remained for many years shrouded in mystery, went to Mexico in the 1920s, whence appeared some twelve novels and collections of stories, including The Treasure of Sierra Madre (1934) filmed by John Huston in 1947. The Man who was B. Traven (1980) by W. Wyatt established that he was Albert Otto Max Feige, later known as Ret Marut, born in Swiebodzin, a Polish town then in Germany.
