Rex Stout A Biography Author:John J. McAleer John J. McAleer begins with Stout's ancestry, and gives an account of his family, his first and second marriages, and the births of his daughters. He also follows Stout's early career as a writer, and tells us about Stout's EBS, a thrift banking system he invented in the late 1910's. Stout began to write the Nero Wolfe mysteries ... more »in 1934, and wrote 72 Nero Wolfe stories until his death in 1975.
Rex Todhunter Stout (12/1/1886 - 10/27/1975) 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 between 1934 and 1975. In 1959, Stout received the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award.« less