Cravan (Hardcover)

This is a true story about the most interesting person you've never heard of. Arthur Cravan was a major figure in pre-WWI cutting-edge art circles. A self-confessed thief, forger, and con-artist, he used a roster of assumed names and false identities. He was known, at various times, as a novelist, poet, painter, art critic, lecturer, publisher, and the lightweight boxing champion of France. In 1918, at the age of thirty-one, the fascinating physical giant vanished without a trace. Is it possible that he became the mysterious, reclusive novelist B. Traven, who wrote The Treasure of the Sierra Madre?