Max Brand (As John Frederick)Frederick Faust (May 29, 1892 - May 12, 1944) was an American writer known basically for his Western stories using the pen name of Max Brand. Faust made the well-known fictitious character of He wrote the character of young Dr. James Kildare for a seies of fiction stories. Faust's other pen names were George Owen Baxter, Evan Evans, George Evans, Peter Dawson, David Monitoring, John Frederick, Peter Morland, George Challis, Peter Ward, Frederick Faust, and Frederick Frost. During mid-1944, when Faust, Frank Gruber, and fellow writer Steve Fisher were working at Warner Brothers, they frequently had discussions during evenings, alongside a Colonel Nee, who was a specialized advisor sent from Washington, D.C. One day, accused of whiskey, Faust discussed getting assigned to a company of foot troopers so he could encounter the war and later compose a war novel. Colonel Nee said he could fix it for himself and half a month after the fact he did, getting Faust a task for Harper's Magazine as a war reporter in Italy. While going with American warriors battling in Italy in 1944, Faust was injured mortally by shrapnel. Read More Read Less