Biography for
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Date of Birth

1 December 1886, Noblesville, Indiana, USA

Date of Death

27 October 1975, Danbury, Connecticut, USA

Birth Name

Rex Todhunter Stout

Spouse

Pola Weinbach Hoffmann	(1932 - ?)
Fay Kennedy	(1916 - 1932) (divorced)

Trivia

His novels were so carefully plotted that he never wrote a second draft.

A longtime friend of P.G. Wodehouse (they both died in 1975). Wodehouse contributed the foreword to John McAleer's Edgar-winning "Rex Stout: A Biography".

During WWII he was active in the Fight for Freedom organization and wrote anti-Nazi propaganda. He also coordinated the volunteer services of American writers to help the war effort.

While on the US Navy (1906-1908) he served as a yeoman on President Theodore Roosevelt's yacht.

At the Bouchercon 2000, he was nominated Best Mystery Writer of the Century and the Nero Wolfe corpus was nominated Best Mystery Series of the Century.

President of the Authors Guild.

In 1958, 14th President of the Mystery Writers of America. In 1959, he received the MWA's Grand Master Award.

Personal Quotes

My theory is that people who don't like mystery stories are anarchists.