This is an excerpt from a review, on Amazon com, of the classic motion picture The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, starring Humphrey Bogart. I certainly do not intend any commercial endorsement or recommendation, I just thought some Oxfordians might find the following excerpt interesting, for what I believe to be obvious reasons.

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“The film was based on a very great novel by the same title by one of the most reclusive authors in the history of literature. During his lifetime, the identify of B. Traven was unknown. If you find dust jackets for printings of his novels from the forties and fifties and sixties, the biographical details are something out of science fiction. Some even claimed that he was Jack London, living in Mexico after having faked his own death! Eventually, investigators went to Mexico after his death and searched exhaustively for the secrets to his identity. He turned out to be an ex-patriot German (not a surprise, since his books were always published in Germany before the United States) named Rex Marut. When John Huston went down to Mexico to film THE TREASURE OF SIERRA MADRE, he attempted to arrange a meeting with B. Traven, but was informed that he was to meet with Traven's representative Hal Croves instead. There is a wonderful photograph that exists of John Huston and "Hal Groves" talking. As he talked with Croves, Huston began to suspect that he was in fact B. Traven himself, though he was unable to voice his suspicion. Years later, it was confirmed to Huston that Hal Groves was yet another alias for Ret Marut a.k.a. B. Traven. Given this fascinating story, it would have been wonder if they could have included as one of the extras for the DVD set the 60-minute documentary THE MAN WHO WAS B. TRAVEN. The extras are good, but this would have been a wonderful addition. “ [typos in original]
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I did a website search here for “Traven” and found nothing so I decided to post it. I believe Traven is mentioned in one or more Oxfordian essays about the possibility of unknown authorship, but don’t have bookmarks for that particular topic and didn’t find those pages this morning.

Is it possible an author could conceal himself, even while writing famous stories? Yes.

"My life belongs to me - only my books belong to the public." - B. Traven