Editing Max Brand (section)

==Death==
During early 1944, when Faust, [[Frank Gruber]], and fellow author [[Steve Fisher (writer)|Steve Fisher]] were working at [[Warner Brothers]], they often had idle conversations during afternoons, along with a Colonel Nee, who was a technical advisor sent from Washington, D.C. One day, charged with whiskey, Faust talked of getting assigned to a company of foot soldiers so he could experience the war and later write a war novel. Colonel Nee said he could fix it for him and some weeks later he did, getting Faust an assignment for ''[[Harper's Magazine]]'' as a war correspondent in Italy.   While traveling with American soldiers fighting in Italy in 1944, Faust was wounded mortally by [[Shrapnel shell|shrapnel]].<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1944/05/17/archives/kildare-creator-is-killed-in-italy-frederick-faust-who-used-pen.html "Kildare Creator Is Killed in Santa Maria Infante near Minturno Italy"], by Milton Bracker, ''[[The New York Times]]'', May 17, 1944. p. 3. {{subscription required}}</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=QtiYB1rU0lkC&pg=PA40 "A Farewell to Max Brand"], by Steve Fisher, published simultaneously in ''[[Argosy (magazine)|Argosy]]'' and ''[[Writer's Digest]]'', in their August 1944 issues.</ref>