Rex Todhunter Stout (/ staʊt /; 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.

Apr 1, 2016 · The rooms of the house for Rex Stout are grouped around a garden court and relate in floor levels to the hillside slope. The house, built in 1930, is one story in height, except that one wing for guest rooms, studio and service is two stories high.

Rex Stout built High Meadow in 1932. It was very contemporary at the time and was noted as the first house of its kind in the U.S. Stout built it himself with the help of local farm boys so that he would have control over the design and building materials.

The Rex Stout papers document Stout’s family life, political activism, and writing career. This includes the writing, publication, and adaptation of his successful Nero Wolfe novels and short stories, as well as other fiction and nonfiction works in print and for radio.

Sep 21, 2013 · The Wolfe Pack visits Rex Stout's home, High Meadow. See photos of the house, the grounds and the Stout family.

Rex Stout died on October 27, 1975 at the age of 89 at his estate, High Meadow, in Connecticut. Sources: Anderson, David R. Rex Stout. New York: F. Ungar, 1984.

Jul 11, 2003 · The Wolfe Pack’s walking tour of Rex Stout’s Greenwich Village began at the former apartment of Rex Stout and his first wife, Fay Kennedy. It included 24 stops, primarily story settings, but also a few Greenwich Village points of interest along the way.

Rex Stout's legacy as a mystery novelist is profound, rivaled perhaps only by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in terms of impact and innovation. His death in 1975 at his estate in Danbury, Connecticut,...

Rex Stout Author. Born: December 1, 1886, Noblesville, Indiana. Died: October 17, 1975, Danbury, Connecticut. Born in 1886, the sixth of nine children, Rex Todhunter Stout was a babe in his mother's arms when he came to Kansas. The family settled in …

Nov 29, 2022 · Rex Todhunter Stout (December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975) was an American writer noted for his detective fiction. Stout is best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe, described by reviewer Will Cuppy as "that Falstaff of detectives." [1] .