Walter B. Gibson
American writer and magician (1897–1985) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other people with the same name, see Walter Gibson (disambiguation).
Walter Brown Gibson (September 12, 1897 – December 6, 1985) was an American writer and professional magician, best known for his work on the pulp fiction character The Shadow. Gibson, under the pen-name Maxwell Grant, wrote "more than 300 novel-length" Shadow stories, writing up to "10,000 words a day" to satisfy public demand during the character's golden age in the 1930s and 1940s.[1] He authored several novels in the Biff Brewster juvenile series of the 1960s. He was married to Litzka R. Gibson, also a writer, and the couple lived in New York state.
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Born | Walter Brown Gibson (1897-09-12)September 12, 1897 Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Died | December 6, 1985(1985-12-06) (aged 88) Kingston, New York, U.S. |
Pen name | Maxwell Grant (shared) |
Occupation | Author and magician |
Nationality | American |
Genre | comic books, comic strips, hypnotism, magic, psychic phenomena, pulp magazines, true crime, yoga |
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