visible in the Jungle Novels, were a complete novelty in the 1930s. Most leftist intellectuals, despite their negative attitude to European and American imperialism, did not know about or were not interested in persecution of natives in Africa, Asia or South America. It has been argued that Traven deserves credit for drawing public attention to these questions, long before anti-colonial movements and struggle for civil rights of black people in the United States. Identity Traven submitted his works himself or through his representatives for publication from Mexico to Europe by post and gave a Mexican post office box as his return address. The copyright holder named in his books was "B. Traven, Tamaulipas, Mexico". Neither the European nor the American publishers of the writer ever met him personally or, at least, the people with whom they negotiated the publication and later also the filming of his books always maintained they were only Traven's literary agents; the identity of the writer himself was to be kept secret. This reluctance to offer any biographical information was explained by B. Traven in words which were to become one of his best-known quotations: "The creative person should have no other biography than his works." The non-vanity and non-ambition claimed by Traven was no humble gesture, Jan-Christoph Hauschild writes: Although the popularity of the writer was still rising – the German Brockhaus Enzyklopädie devoted an article to him as early as 1934 – B. Traven remained a mysterious figure. Literary critics, journalists and others were trying to discover the author's identity and were proposing more or less credible, sometimes fantastic, hypotheses. List of works B. Traven – Stand-alone works The Cotton-Pickers (1926; retitled from The Wobbly) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1927; first English pub. 1935) The Death Ship: The Story of an American Sailor (1926; first English pub. 1934) The White Rose (1929; first full English pub 1979) The Night Visitor and Other Stories (English pub. 1967) The Bridge in the Jungle (1929; first English pub. 1938) Land des Frühlings (1928) – travel book – untranslated Aslan Norval (1960) – untranslated Stories by the Man Nobody Knows (1961) The Kidnapped Saint and Other Stories (1975) The Creation of the Sun and the Moon (1968) B. Traven – The Jungle Novels Government (1931) The Carreta (1931, released in Germany 1930) March to the Monteria (a.k.a. March to Caobaland) (1933) Trozas (1936) The Rebellion of