Hans Otto Storm
Hans Otto Storm (1895–1941) was a
He is one of many people who has been speculatively suggested to be the pseudonymous writer B. Traven.[3]
Life
Storm was born in Bloomington, California to German parents who may have been refugees fleeing anti-socialist fervor following the failed Revolutions of 1848.[3] He studied engineering at Stanford University and entered the emerging field of radio. He traveled in South and Central America, including long spells in Nicaragua and Peru.[3] He served two years with a United States Army hospital during World War I.[3]
Storm died of accidental
His literary papers are archived at Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.[4]
Novels
Storm's first novel, Full Measure (1929), is about industrial expansion and is strongest on the subject of radio engineering and equipment.
His last novel, Count Ten (1940) is his longest and most heavily marketed;[2] it follows thirty years of the life of its protagonist, Eric Marsden.[1] In Edmund Wilson’s estimation, the novel is "very much inferior on the whole to the ones that had gone before."[2] Wilson also thought that it showed "what seemed internal evidence of having been written earlier," giving off the air of "one of those autobiographical novels that young men begin in college and carry around for years in old trunks."[2]
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h Bigelow, Brad (May 29, 2010). "Hans Otto Storm". The Neglected Books Page. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
- ^ ISBN 0374526672.
- ^ ISBN 0761829733.
- ^ "Guide to the Hans Otto Storm Papers, [ca. 1916-1941]" (PDF). Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved June 2, 2016.
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