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John J. McAleer: The Making of Rex Stout's Biography Archived 2008-12-10 at the Wayback Machine (Mark Fullmer) Stout's radicalism, the FBI, the books (from the Daily Bleed Calendar) a comprehensive overview of Rex Stout's work and biography Archived 2003-02-10 at the Wayback Machine; Forty years with Nero Wolfe (January 12, 2009) by Terry Teachout
Fanciful biography. Reviewed in Time, March 21, 1969 [22] Bourne, Michael, Corsage: A Bouquet of Rex Stout and Nero Wolfe (1977, James A. Rock & Co, Publishers; Hardcover ISBN 0-918736-00-5 / Paperback ISBN 0-918736-01-3). Posthumous collection produced in a numbered limited edition of 276 hardcovers and 1,500 softcovers.
The Red Box is the fourth Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout.Prior to its first publication in 1937 by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., the novel was serialized in five issues of The American Magazine (December 1936 – April 1937).
According to John J. McAleer, Rex Stout's official biographer, during his stint in the Navy, Stout came into contact with Alvey A. Adee, who was a major influence on Stout's creation of Nero Wolfe. Adee was a scholar, sleuth, gourmet, bachelor, a model of efficiency, a master of the English language, and is said to have inspired the ...
Stout's biographer states that Stout hit on the idea of the FBI while reading Cook's exposé; Stout sent Cook an autographed copy of The Doorbell Rang, thanking him for "priming my pump". [3] [4] Stout had not before used a Wolfe book to air his own political views so extensively, and did not do so again until 1975's A Family Affair.
Four years later, John McAleer began working on what would become Rex Stout: A Biography. McAleer obtained the contest mailing list and began correspondence with one of the fans, Ellen Krieger. [1] Krieger desired to form a literary society devoted to Wolfe and McAleer provided the name: The Wolfe Pack. [1]
"Die Like a Dog" is a Nero Wolfe mystery novella written by American writer Rex Stout, first published as "The Body in the Hall" in the December 1954 issue of The American Magazine. It first appeared in book form in the short-story collection Three Witnesses, published by the Viking Press in 1956.
Rex Stout book cover images (65 F) N. Nero Wolfe (3 C, 25 P) W. Works by Rex Stout (2 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Rex Stout" The following 8 pages are in this category ...