Max Brand, a pen name for Frederick Faust, wrote 530 full length books in addition to countless short stories and magazine articles. The creator of Dr. Kildare, he died at 52 during the Second World War.
At the time of his death he left so many usable unpublished manuscripts that Max Brand still, nearly 65 years after he died, releases a new book every four months.
Yet, oddly, Max Brand did not plan to be, or expect to be, a writer. When he was quite young he applied for a job with a cowboy magazine in New York. As a test he was given a sketch of an idea to flesh out into a story line. He was given six hours for the task and came back with a fully written novel.
He never looked back.
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