(1886-1975) US writer best known for his Nero Wolfe detective stories, beginning with Fer-de-Lance (1934) and continuing to the end of his life, the last being A Family Affair (1975); none of the Wolfe novels and novellas have any fantastic content. Under the Andes (February 1914 All-Story; 1984) describes, in a style very unlike his deft mature drawl, an Underground Lost World of dwarf Incans. In The President Vanishes (1934), published anonymously, the disappearance of the US President causes a Near-Future crisis. [JC/DRL]
see also: Dime-Novel SF.
Rex Todhunter Stout
born 1886
died 1975
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