Rex Stout
American writer (1886-1975) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 88
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 39 novellas or short stories between 1934 and 1975, starting with Fer-de-Lance (1934).
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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 Stout, president of the Friends of Democracy, and Leon Milton Birkhead, its founder and national director, as communists. They had earlier charged that the Tribune was pro-fascist.[8]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Chicago_Tribune_isolationist_political_cartoon.jpg/1280px-Chicago_Tribune_isolationist_political_cartoon.jpg)
March 1945 political cartoon in the Chicago Tribune attacking Stout, president of the Friends of Democracy, and Leon Milton Birkhead, its founder and national director, as communists. They had earlier charged that the Tribune was pro-fascist.[8]
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Charles MacArthurAlso in The President Vanishes (1934)
Rafaela OttianoAlso in The League of Frightened Men (1937)
Irene HerveyAlso in The League of Frightened Men (1937)
Arthur ByronAlso in The President Vanishes (1934)
Oscar LevantAlso in Information Please: Series 1, No. 1 (1939)
Clifton FadimanAlso in Information Please: Series 1, No. 1 (1939)