Maxwell Grant
Maxwell Grant was a HouseName house name created by pulp publisher StreetandSmith Street and Smith and used by a number of fictioneers. Itís most commonly known from appearing on ShadowThe The Shadow pulps: ìFrom The Shadowís private annals, as told to Maxwell Grant.î
Background
Maxwell Grant was chiefly used by GibsonWalter Walter B. Gibson, who wrote 282 of the 325 Shadow novels that appeared in the pulps. The additional novels ó also under the HouseName house name Maxwell Grant ó were written by TinsleyTheodore Theodore Tinsley and ElliottBruce Bruce Elliott, with one being originally written by DentLester Lester Dent and rewritten by Gibson.In The Shadow Scrapbook, Gibson explains that he created the pen name Maxwell Grant by combining the names of two magic dealers he knew ó Maxwell Holden and U.F. Grant.
GibsonWalter Gibson also used the name on a series of short stories about NorgilTheMagician Norgil the Magician, which appeared CrimeBusters Crime Busters 1937-40.
The Grant named also appeared, surprisingly, on several stories in SportStoryMagazine Sport Story Magazine, also a StreetandSmith Street and Smith pulp. Pulp historian Will Murray, writing in EchoesFanzine Echoes pulp fanzine, says that MannArthur Arthur Mann, LewisTom Tom Lewis and OlsenJames James P. Olsen each wrote a story under the Grant name. The true authors of three other sports stories attributed to Grant are unknown.
