Herbert Brean

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Herbert Brean (born December 10, 1907 in Detroit , Michigan , † May 7, 1973 ) was an American journalist and writer.

Life

Herbert Brean studied at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and was able to successfully complete this course in 1929 with the title " BA ". He then worked as a journalist, initially for United Press in New York , and later for ten years for the "Detroit Times". During this time he wrote detective stories for Pulp magazines . From 1944 Brean worked for Life in New York, where he wrote his first of a total of seven detective novels , published in 1948 under the title Wilders Walk Away . Brean wrote nonfiction books and articles for magazines such as Fortune and Time . He was a member of the Mystery Writers of America and became their president in 1967.

Herbert Brean had been married to Dorothy Skeman since 1934 and had two daughters. He died in 1973 at the age of 65.

Works

Novels

Reynold frame cycle
  • 1948: Wilders Walk Away . Morrow, New York
  • 1949: The Darker the Night . Morrow, New York
→ German The lintel . Upward publishing house, Berlin 1953
  • 1950: Hardly a Man Is Now Alive . Morrow, New York
→ as Murder Now and Then . Macmillan, London 1965
  • 1952: The Clock Strikes Thirteen . Morrow, New York
William Deacon cycle
  • 1960: The Traces of Brillhart . Harper, New York
→ German fatal interlude . Nest Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1961
  • 1966: The Traces of Merrilee . Morrow, New York
Others
  • 1956: A Matter of Fact . Morrow, New York
→ as a collar for the killer . Heinemann, London 1957
→ as Dead Sure . Dell, New York 1958
→ German The last exam . Nest Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1958

Non-fiction

  • 1951: How to Stop Smoking . Vanguard Press, New York
→ dt. How to quit smoking . Günther-Verlag, Stuttgart 1952
  • 1958: How to Stop Drinking . Holt Rinehart, New York
→ as A Handbook for Drinkers - and for Those Who Want to Stop . Collier, New York 1963
  • 1961: The Life Treasury of American Folklore . Time, New York
  • 1962: The Music of Life . Time, New York
  • 1965: The Only Diet That Works . Morrow, New York
As editor
  • 1956: The Mystery Writer's Handbook . Harper, New York

literature

  • Armin Arnold u. a. (Ed.): Reclams Kriminalromanführer . Reclam, Stuttgart 1978, p. 84
  • Mary Helen Becker: Herbert Brean . In: John M. Reilly (ed.): Twentieth-Century Crime And Mystery Writers . St. James Press, London 1985, p. 99 f.
  • Otto Penzler: Detectionary. A biographical dictionary of leading characters in detective and mystery fiction . Overlook Press, Woodstock, N.Y. 1977

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personal data
SURNAME Brean, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit , Michigan
DATE OF DEATH May 7th 1973