EventDV, May 1st, 2006
Though his novels sold in the millions and spawned classic movies like John Huston's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, B. Traven is remembered less for the work he created than the mystery surrounding his identity. Which is ironic, if not surprising, since he maintained adamantly throughout his life that a writer should be judged on his work alone, rather than some packaged public persona. It wasn't that his life was uninteresting; on the contrary, he insisted that his life adventures could fill more books than one man could possibly write.
But many skeptics doubted that one man could have ...
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