# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-b-gibson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:40:55.025Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-b-gibson"
name: "Walter B. Gibson"
slug: "walter-b-gibson"
description: "Walter Brown Gibson was an American writer and professional magician, best known for his work on the pulp fiction character The Shadow, and as a ghost-writer for many of his friend Harry Houdini's books. Gibson, under the pen-name Maxwell Grant, wrote 282 of the original 325 'The Shadow' novels/novellas during the 1930s/1940s, writing up to \"10,000 words a day\" to satisfy public demand during the character's golden age. He authored several novels in the Biff Brewster juvenile series of the 1960s. He was married to Litzka R. Gibson, also a writer, and the couple lived in New York state."
tagline: "Pulp writer and magician (1897–1985)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1897-09-12"
deathDate: "1985-12-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.038448
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0317212/"
    handle:    "nm0317212"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e9b6d7f5-8f54-403a-8fad-fc49d3d36c6c"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D9%8A._%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "والتر بي. جيبسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D9%89._%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "والتر بى. جيبسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Brown_Gibson"
    title: "Walter Brown Gibson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_B._Gibson"
    title: "Walter B. Gibson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_B._Gibson"
    title: "Walter B. Gibson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B8%D0%B1%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A3%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BD"
    title: "Гибсон, Уолтер Браун"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q466896"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1287245"
    title: "Walter B. Gibson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump