The B. Traven Identity
Much about B. Traven's identity remains a mystery. He used dozens of aliases. He died in Mexico City, calling himself Traven Torsvan Croves, on March 26, 1969.
Many faces of B. Traven, taken from the cover of The Secret of the Sierra Madre, by Will Wyatt, 1980
Here is a sampling of scholarly works on the writings and identity of B. Traven from our collection.
Recknagel, Rolf. B. Traven: Beiträge zur Biographie. Leipzig: Philipp Reclam, 1971. |
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Baumann, Michael L. B. Traven: An Introduction. Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, 1976. |
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Stone, Judy. The Mystery of B. Traven Los Altos, Calif.: W. Kaufmann, 1977. |
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Raskin, Jonah. My Search for B. Traven. New York: Methuen, 1980. |
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Wyatt, Will. The Man Who Was B. Traven. London: Jonathan Cape, 1980. |
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Wyatt, Will. The Secret of the Sierra Madre: The Man Who Was B. Traven. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1980. |
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Guthke, Karl S. “Das Geheimnis um B. Traven entdeckt” ... und rätselvoller denn je. Frankfurt am Main: Büchergilde Gutenberg, 1984.
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Guthke, Karl S. B. Traven: Biographie eines Rätsels. Frankfurt am Main: Büchergilde Gutenberg, 1987. |
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UCR's Traven collection is appreciated by researchers from around the world. This volume of conference proceedings references the collection at least 15 different times.
B. Traven the Writer. Der Schriftsteller B. Traven. Edited by Jörg Thunecke. Nottingham: Edition Refugium, 2003. |
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Pateman, Roy. The Man Nobody Knows: The Life and Legacy of B. Traven. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2005. |
