Rex Stout

Rex Stout, full name Rex Todhunter Stout, (December 1, 1886 - October 27, 1975) was an American writer best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe. Stout was born in Noblesville, Indiana, but shortly after that his Quaker parents (John Wallace Stout and Lucetta Elizabeth Todhunter Stout) moved their family (nine children in all) to Kansas.

External links

• Stout's radicalism, the FBI, the books (from the Daily Bleed Calendar)
• a comprehensive overview of Rex Stout's work and biography
• Under the Andes — e-text of one of Stout's earliest works
• Bibliography of Stout's first editions in the United Kingdom
• http://www.nerowolfe.org/ Wolfe Pack site; in the "Corpus" section, Bibliography of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe and non-Nero Wolfe publications, including early pulp fiction and magazine printings; links to Wolfe-related events, publications, etc.