Rex Stout
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Rex Todhunter Stout was an American writer noted for his detective fiction. His best-known characters are the detective Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin, who were featured in 33 novels and
Rex Stout on Our Secret Weapon (December 1942)
A frequent guest panelist on the NBC radio series Information Please, Stout was featured in the first of 18 RKO-Pathé short film versions that screened in American theaters. Sitting on the steps of the Radio City Music Hall lobby after the September 1939 premiere are (from left) Pathé chief Frederic Ullman Jr., Stout, director Frank P. Donovan, John Kieran, Franklin P. Adams and Dan Golenpaul, creator of the radio program.
The Stout family at High Meadow, "The House That Nero Wolfe Built" (Look, February 13, 1940)
March 1945 political cartoon in the Chicago Tribune attacking "The Foreign Minded Playboy", Stout, president of the Friends of Democracy, and Leon Milton Birkhead, founder and national director of the Friends of Democracy, as communists. Stout and Birkhead had earlier charged that the Tribune was pro-fascist.
Nero Wolfe
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Nero Wolfe is a brilliant, obese and eccentric fictional armchair detective created in 1934 by American mystery writer Rex Stout. Wolfe was born in Montenegro and keeps his past murky. He lives in a l
Rex Stout
…Stout (; December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975) was an American writer noted for his detective fiction. His best-known characters are the detective Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin, who were featured in 33 novels and 39 novellas or short stories between 1934 and 1975, starting with Fer-de-Lance…
Carl Mueller illustrated "The Red Bull" (1938) for The American Magazine
Nero Wolfe and his boyhood friend Marko Vukčić hunted dragonflies in the mountains where Wolfe was born, in the vicinity of Lovćen
Manhattan brownstone used for exteriors in A&E TV's Nero Wolfe
Cartoon by Stan Hunt for The American Magazine (June 1949)