The Mystery of B. Traven

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.