45worlds Forum - Maxwell Grant - pen name author IDs?

45worlds Forums » Books » View Topic

Maxwell Grant - pen name author IDs?

15th Feb 2025, 2:49 PM		#1 REPORT
	23skidoo Member since Jul 2014 4203 Points	Maxwell Grant, credited with authoring The Shadow book, was a pen name used by Walter B. Gibson and others. We have about 40 Shadow books listed, but we should indicate the real authors for these and indicate Maxwell Grant as a pen name. I have't had any luck finding an online breakdown of which author wrote which Shadow book. Does anyone know of a source so we can properly credit those books? I recently bought one of Gibson's books about magic so it would be nice to connect him with the appropriate Shadow book in his bibliography. Thanks! EDIT: Wikipedia does list Gibson's Shadow books but not the other authors. And I get the sense that titles have been changed on some of them so it isn't as helpful a source as I would imagine.

16th Feb 2025, 6:10 AM		#2 REPORT
	annaloog ● Member since Sep 2012 6859 Points Moderator	It's the same kind of situation with "Ellery Queen", with several authors (besides the original duo) writing under the Queen pseudonym. I have copies of the Jack (John H.) Vance authored titles, and these have been entered with "Ellery Queen" as the pen name, including the Signet Double Mystery titles. You might consider entering the Grant titles as, Maxwell Grant as Maxwell Grant, then request a correction to change the actual author name when you have more info.