Walter B. Gibson | |
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| Born | Walter Brown Gibson September 12, 1897 Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | December 6, 1985 (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 |
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.