The Man Nobody Knows: The Life and Legacy of B. Traven

by Roy Pateman

In this book, Roy Pateman provides the most reader-friendly, up to date biography of B. Traven, an enigmatic writer whose readership spread across broader class, race, and language divides more than anyone else writing during the twentieth century. This unconventional biography discusses Traven's alternative histories, followed by an attempt to find out the major influences of this elusive man. Pateman addresses Traven's politics, his life of humanist anarchism, and discusses all of his works (in English and German), emphasizing The Death Ship, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , and the "Jungle Sextet." Also included is a chronology of Traven's life, which is fuller than that found in any other study. The book ends with a modest solution to the intractable problem of who Traven really was and where he was born and raised.

252 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2004

Reviews

[Justin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Overly discursive, but I think anyone would be hard pressed to find someone who knows more about B Traven. Great resource about a writer who is slowly becoming my absolute favorite author.

[Robert Palmer · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a biography of B.Traven written by Roy Pateman,however this is not the book that I read. What I did in fact read was " Stories by the man nobody knows" by B.traven.The book was published in 1961 and has been long out of print. It was given to me as a Father's Day gift from by daughter. The price marked on the cover was fifty cents and I am sure she paid much more than that on EBay .
Their nine short story's in the small book,some tragic,some funny all very good story's of the people of Mexico.
Traven is best known for his novel "The treasure of the Sierra Madre" made into a classic movie by John Huston.
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