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Rex Stout was an American writer and detective story author who lived from 1886 to 1975. His literary output includes works such as *A Family Affair*, *Black Orchids*, *Not Quite Dead Enough*, and *The Silent Speaker*. The author has been associated with the mystery and audiobook genres.
Stout’s bibliography comprises 230 works according to Open Library records, while Crossref lists five of his works. His writings have been referenced in 334 other encyclopedia articles. An official website for Rex Stout is maintained at nerowolfe.org.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1886
- Died
- 1975
- Works
- 230
Top works
- A FAMILY AFFAIR
- Black orchids
- Not quite dead enough
- The Silent Speaker
- The silent speaker
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 224
- Total plays
- 21,306
Tags
Rex Todhunter Stout (December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975) was an American crime writer, best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe, described by reviewer Will Cuppy as "that Falstaff of detectives." Wolfe's assistant Archie Goodwin recorded the cases of the detective genius from 1934 (Fer-de-Lance) to 1975 (A Family Affair). The Nero Wolfe corpus was nominated Best Mystery Series of the Century at Bouchercon 2000 <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Rex+Stou
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Ultrasensitive fluorescent proteins for imaging neuronal activity
· 2013 · cited 6,630x
- The Gene Ontology resource: enriching a GOld mine
· 2020 · cited 3,356x
- Graph Convolutional Neural Networks for Web-Scale Recommender Systems
· 2018 · cited 2,783x
- Dulaglutide and cardiovascular outcomes in type 2 diabetes (REWIND): a double-blind, randomised placebo-controlled trial
· 2019 · cited 2,652x
- Minimum information about a single amplified genome (MISAG) and a metagenome-assembled genome (MIMAG) of bacteria and archaea
· 2017 · cited 2,440x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “There are various ways to call a man a liar. One way is just to scream it at him, which doesn't prove anything. Another is to establish facts by long and patient investigation. Still another way is not to call him a liar at all – let him do it himself.”
- “Bosh. I find a rival – but no, I won't flatter myself that Tecumseh Fox would consider himself a rival of Dol Bonner – I find an eminent detective in your apartment, and that alone is enough, without adding that he is concealed in your bedroom while I am discussing my business with you...”
- “There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living – cook books and detective stories.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Rex Todhunter Stout , ( 1886-12-01 ) December 1, 1886, Noblesville, Indiana , United States
- Died
- October 27, 1975 (1975-10-27) (aged 88), Danbury, Connecticut , United States
- Occupation
- Writer
- Genre
- Detective fiction
- Notable works
- Nero Wolfe corpus , 1934–1975
- Spouse
- Fay Kennedy ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1916 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1932 ) Pola Weinbach Hoffmann ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1932 )
- Branch
- United States Navy
- Service years
- 1906–1908
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Rex Todhunter Stout (/staʊt/; 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 (1934).
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 XXXI, the world's largest mystery convention, and Rex Stout was nominated as Best Mystery Writer of the Century.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rex Stout” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.