S. S. Van Dine
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican art critic and writer (1888-1939)
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S. S. Van Dine is the pen name used by American art critic Willard Huntington Wright when he wrote detective novels.
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S. S. Van Dine is the pen name used by American art critic Willard Huntington Wright when he wrote detective novels. Wright was active in avant-garde cultural circles in pre-World War I New York, and under the pen name he created the fictional detective Philo Vance, a sleuth and aesthete who first appeared in novels, starting with The Benson Murder Case (1926), then in films and on the radio.
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United StatesCategory
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1888 to 1939 · aged 50
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