B. Traven

B. Traven (Bruno Traven in some accounts) was the pen name of a presumably German novelist, whose real name, nationality, date and place of birth and details of biography are all subject to dispute. One of the few certainties about Traven's life is that he lived for years in Mexico, where the majority of his fiction is also set—including "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1927), the film adaptation of which won three Academy Awards in 1948.