The Mystery of B. Traven

About the Book

The only interview ever granted by the man generally assumed to have been B Traven, pseudonymous author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Death Ship and eight Mexican novels. Plus a postscript “My Second Thoughts about B. Traven, variously known as Ret Marut, Richard Maurhut, Berick Traven Torsvan and Hal Croves. An unknown Russian sailor adds to the mystery. “Second Thoughts” was my contribution to an international conference on the author at Penn State University in 1987. It was among the papers published by Pennsylvania State University Press in 1987.

About the Author

Judy Stone was a film critic and editor at the San Francisco Chronicle for 30 years. She is the author of “Eye on the World: Conversations with International Filmmakers” and has written for the New York Times, The Nation, Ramparts, The Ladies Home Journal and Playgirl on a wide range of subjects. Published profiles include Senator Diane Feinstein, Czeslaw Milosz, Olga Carlisle, Orhan Pamuk, Juan Goytisolo and Yuan-tsung Chen (author of “The Dragon’s Village”). Her interview with Rolf Hochhuth was republished in Eric Bentley’s collection on The Deputy.