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About Rex Stout
Author, Business Man, Sailor, Activist, Family Man, & a person with many interests
Rex Todhunter Stout was born in Noblesville, Indiana, December 1, 1886. He was the sixth of nine children born to John and Lucetta Todhunter Stout. Educated in Kansas, he was recognized as a prodigy in arithmetic. After a brief time on campus at the University of Kansas, Stout quit school to enlist in the Navy where he spent two years as warrant officer on board President Theodore Roosevelt's yacht.
After the Navy, he began to write for pulp fiction magazines and also tried his hand at a variety of jobs. With his brother, Robert, Stout devised and implemented a school banking system. Bank Day proved a very successful venture and allowed Stout retire from the business world and move to Paris to write full-time.
He published three novels before he turned to the mystery genre. The books received favorable reviews but were not best sellers. Following the 1929 stock market crash he lost a great deal of the money he had saved. He returned to the U
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Rex Stout
American writer (1886–1975)
Rex Todhunter Stout (; 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.
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.
In addition to writing fiction, Stout was a prominent public intellectual for decades. Stout was active in the early years of the American Civil Liberties Union and a founder of the Vanguard Press. He served as head of the Writers' War Board during World War II, became a radio celebrity through his numerous broadcasts, and was later active in promoting world federalism. He was the long-time president of the Authors Guild and sought to benefit authors by lobbying for improve
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County map showing the Stout farm southeast of Wakarusa
From the Topeka Daily
Capital, January 13, 1907
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Rex Todhunter Stout is considered by many to be the creator of one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time. The rotund, eccentric Nero Wolfe, along with his intrepid sidekick, Archie Goodwin, are two of the most enduring characters in literature. Stout was a prolific author: this popular series alone consists of 46 novels, 40 novellas, and numerous short stories. When Stout died October 27, 1975, he had 57 books in print, more than any living American writer at the time. Rex, the sixth of nine children, was born in Noblesville, Indiana, December 1, 1886. Less than a year later his family moved back to Kansas (his sister Ruth was born in Girard, Kansas, in 1884.) Initially they stayed in Bellview, a district near the city of Topeka in the area no Copyright ©froughy.pages.dev 2025 | |||