Editing Rex Stout (section)

===Rex Stout Archive===
The archival papers of Rex Stout anchor [[Boston College]]'s collection of American detective fiction.<ref name="Burns Library Special Collections Listing 2000">{{cite web |url=http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/ulib/protof/port/coll-special2.html#detective |title=Special Collections Listing |date=April 25, 2000 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131015044500/http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/ulib/protof/port/coll-special2.html |archive-date=October 15, 2013}}</ref> The Rex Stout papers were donated to the [[Burns Library]] by the Stout family in 1980 and includes manuscripts, correspondence, legal papers, personal papers, publishing contracts, photographs, and ephemera.<ref name="Burns Library Rex Stout papers">{{cite web |title=Collection: Rex Stout papers |website=Burns Library Archival Collections |date=1975-10-27 |url=https://findingaids.bc.edu/repositories/2/resources/94 |access-date=2025-02-06}}</ref> The collection also includes first editions, international editions, and archived reprints of Stout's books, as well as volumes from Stout's personal library.<ref name="Burns Library Rex Stout papers"/>

The comprehensive archive at Burns Library also includes the extensive research files of Stout's official biographer John J. McAleer,<ref>{{cite web |title=Collection: John J. McAleer faculty papers |website=Burns Library Archival Collections |date=1923-08-29 |url=https://findingaids.bc.edu/repositories/2/resources/20 |access-date=2025-02-06}}</ref> the Rex Stout collection of bibliographer Judson C. Sapp,<ref>{{cite web |title=Sapp, Judson C., 1972 |website=Burns Library Archival Collections |date=2025-02-06 |url=https://findingaids.bc.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/10416 |access-date=2025-02-06}}</ref> and a collection of Nero Wolfe's magazine appearances donated by Ed Price.<ref>{{cite web |title=Collection: Ed Price collection of Rex Stout |website=Burns Library Archival Collections |url=https://findingaids.bc.edu/repositories/2/resources/436 |access-date=2025-02-06}}</ref><ref name="Burns Library Special Collections Listing 2000"/>