“He is probably the most famous Rabbi of the Central/Eastern European Era. He is not famous for any Sefer or Pshats, He is famous for making a Golem.”
neither statement is true.
incidentally, Yaakov dovid Shulman, a contemporary author of biographies, says in his book about the maharal that the golem legend is unsupported. then he includes for the sake of completeness (and to fill up a chapter) one of the golem stories.