Rex Stout
Author
1886 – 1975
Who was Rex Stout?
Rex Todhunter Stout was an American writer noted for his detective fiction. Stout is best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe, described by reviewer Will Cuppy as "that Falstaff of detectives." The Nero Wolfe stories are narrated by Wolfe's assistant Archie Goodwin, who is presented as having recorded the cases of the detective genius from 1934 to 1975.
In 1959 Stout received the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award. The Nero Wolfe corpus was nominated Best Mystery Series of the Century at Bouchercon 2000, the world's largest mystery convention, and Rex Stout was nominated Best Mystery Writer of the Century.
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- Born
- Dec 1, 1886
Noblesville - Also known as
- Rex Todhunter Stout
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Pola Hoffmann
(1932 - 1975) - Fay Kennedy
(1916 - 1932)
- Pola Hoffmann
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Topeka High School
- University of Kansas
- Lived in
- Topeka
- Noblesville
- Danbury
- Died
- Oct 27, 1975
Danbury
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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