B. Traven

Born February 23, 1882· Schwiebus, Brandenburg, German Empire (today Świebodzin, Polen)

† Died March 26, 1969

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After a career on German stages and as an anarchist pamphleteer under the alias Ret Marut, he relocated to Mexico in 1924 where he adopted the pen name B. Traven and began producing socially charged fiction. His early stories appeared in the Berlin daily Vorwärts, and his first novel, The Cotton-Pickers, was serialized the following year. Traven’s most celebrated work, The Treasure of the Sierra M… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources