 | Pulp Fiction Frederick Faust (Max Brand) His uncle was Thomas Downey, the first principal of Modesto High School. When he was a teenager, Frederick Faust's mother wanted him to be raised with disicipline, so she sent him out west to Modesto to live with his uncle. As he grew older, he would point to his tyears in Modesto as the time of his life, where he learned how to write and had experiences that he would later use in his books. As Max Brand he wrote, "Destry" and created the Dr. Kildare series, among many other Western novels. He may have been a pulp fiction writer, but his books are still in publication today. He went off to war in the 1940s as a reporter, when he was in his fifties, and died in 1944, but Modesto can claim him as an "almost-native" son. | |||
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