Editing Rex Stout

{{Short description|American writer (1886–1975)}}
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'''Rex Todhunter Stout''' ({{IPAc-en|s|t|aʊ|t}}; December 1, 1886&ndash;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 (character)|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 improvement of authors' rights under the [[copyright]] laws. He also served a term as president of the [[Mystery Writers of America]] in 1958.

==Biography==
===Early life===
Stout was born in [[Noblesville, Indiana]], in 1886, but shortly afterwards his [[Quaker]] parents John Wallace Stout and Lucetta Elizabeth Todhunter Stout moved their family (nine children in all) to [[Kansas]].

His father was a teacher who encouraged his son to read, leading to Rex having read the entire Bible twice by the age of four. At age thirteen he was the state [[spelling bee]] champion. Stout attended [[Topeka High School|Topeka High School, Kansas]], and the [[University of Kansas|University of Kansas, Lawrence]]. His sister, [[Ruth Stout]], also authored several books on no-work gardening and some social commentaries.

He served in the [[United States Navy|U.S. Navy]] from 1906 to 1908 (including service as a [[yeoman]] on [[Theodore Roosevelt]]'s presidential yacht) and then spent about the next four years working at a series of jobs in six states, including cigar-store clerk.

In 1910–11, Stout sold three short poems to the literary magazine ''The Smart Set''. Between 1912 and 1918, he published more than forty works of fiction in various magazines, ranging from literary publications such as ''[[Smith's Magazine]]'' and ''[[Lippincott's Monthly Magazine]]'' to pulp magazines like the ''[[All-Story Weekly]].''

Stout invented a school banking system around 1916, which he promoted with his brother Robert. About 400 U.S. schools adopted his system for keeping track of the money that school children saved in accounts at school.  Royalties from this work provided Stout with enough money to travel in Europe extensively during the 1920s.

In 1916, Stout married Fay Kennedy of [[Topeka, Kansas]]. They divorced in February 1932<ref name="Townsend"/>{{Rp|xx|date=October 2013}} and, in December 1932, Stout married [[Pola Stout|Pola Weinbach Hoffmann]], a designer who had studied with [[Josef Hoffmann]] in [[Vienna]].<ref name="McAleer"/>{{Rp|234–236|date=October 2013}}{{efn|Born in Stryj, Poland, Pola Weinbach Hoffmann Stout (1902–1984) studied at the Vienna School of Design. She and her first husband, Wolfgang Hoffmann—son of the famous architect and [[Wiener Werkstätte]] co-founder [[Josef Hoffmann]]—were a prominent design team when they emigrated to the United States in 1925.<ref>{{cite journal |date=2001 |title=Shaping the Modern: American Decorative Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago, 1917–65 |journal=Modern Solutions |publisher=[[Art Institute of Chicago]] |volume=27 |issue=2 |page=52 |isbn=9780865591875 }}</ref>}}{{efn|Pola Stout was an influential textile designer after her second marriage.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Kirkham |editor-first=Pat |date=2000 |title=Women Designers in the USA, 1900–2000 |location=New Haven, Connecticut |publisher=[[Yale University Press]] |page=151 |isbn=9780300093315 }}</ref>}}

==Writings==
[[File:Information Please 1 premiere.jpg|thumb|A frequent guest panelist on the NBC radio series ''[[Information Please]]'', Stout was featured in the first of 18 RKO-Pathé short film versions that screened in American theaters. Sitting on the steps of the Radio City Music Hall lobby after the September 1939 premiere are (from left) Pathé chief Frederic Ullman Jr., Stout, director Frank P. Donovan, [[John Kieran]], [[Franklin P. Adams]] and [[Dan Golenpaul]], creator of the radio program.]]
[[File:Stout-Family-High-Meadow-Look-1940.jpg|thumb|The Stout family at High Meadow, "The House That Nero Wolfe Built" (''[[Look (American magazine)|Look]]'', February 13, 1940)]]

Rex Stout began his literary career in the 1910s writing for magazines, particularly [[pulp magazine]]s, writing more than 40 stories that appeared between 1912 and 1918. Stout's early stories appeared most frequently in ''[[All-Story Magazine]]'' and its affiliates, but he was also published in magazines as varied as ''[[Smith's Magazine]]'', ''[[Lippincott's Monthly Magazine]]'', ''[[Short Stories (magazine)|Short Stories]]'', ''[[The Smart Set]]'', ''Young's Magazine'', and ''Golfers Magazine''. The early stories spanned genres including romance, adventure, science fiction/fantasy, and detective fiction, including two murder mystery novellas ("Justice Ends at Home" and ''The Last Drive'') that prefigured elements of the Wolfe stories.

By 1916, Stout grew tired of writing a story whenever he needed money. He decided to stop writing until he had made enough money to support himself through other means, so  he would be able to write when and as he pleased. He wrote no fiction for more than a decade, until the late 1920s, when he had saved substantial money through his school banking system. Ironically, just as Stout was starting to write fiction again, he lost most of the money that he had made as a businessman in the [[Great Depression]] of 1929.

In 1929, Stout wrote his first published book, ''How Like a God'', an unusual psychological story written in the second person. The novel was published by the [[Vanguard Press]], which he had helped to found. Stout published a total of four psychological novels between 1929 and 1933, the first three with Vanguard and the fourth at [[Farrar & Rinehart]], to which he was recruited by editor [[John C. Farrar]]. 

In the 1930s, Stout turned to writing detective fiction, a genre that he and Farrar thought might be more financially rewarding than his previous novels. In 1933, he wrote ''[[Fer-de-Lance (novel)|Fer-de-Lance]]'', which introduced [[Nero Wolfe]] and his assistant [[Archie Goodwin (character)|Archie Goodwin]]. The novel was published by Farrar & Rinehart in October 1934, and in abridged form as "Point of Death" in ''[[The American Magazine]]'' (November 1934). The same year, Stout also published a political thriller ''[[The President Vanishes]]'' (1934), which was originally published anonymously.

''Fer-de-Lance'' was the first of 72 Nero Wolfe stories (33 novels and 39 novellas) that Stout published from 1934 to 1975. Stout continued writing the Nero Wolfe series for the rest of his life. Beginning in 1940, Nero Wolfe began to appear in novellas as well as full-length novels, at the behest of his editors at ''The American Magazine''.  Stout wrote at least one Nero Wolfe story every year through 1966 (except in 1943, when war-related activities took priority). Stout's rate of production declined somewhat after 1966, but he still published four further Nero Wolfe novels prior to his death in 1975, at the age of 88.

The characters of Wolfe and Goodwin are considered among Stout's main contributions to detective fiction. Wolfe was described by reviewer [[Will Cuppy]] as "that [[Falstaff]] of detectives".<ref name="McAleer">{{cite book |last=McAleer |first=John J. |date=1977 |title=Rex Stout: A Biography |location=Boston |publisher=[[Little, Brown and Company]] |isbn=9780316553407 }}</ref>{{Rp|287}}<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Rothe |editor-first=Anna |date=1947 |title=Current Biography, 1946: Who's News and Why |location=New York |publisher=H. W. Wilson Co. |page=576 |isbn=9780824201128 }}</ref>{{efn|Essays by both Will Cuppy ("How to Read a Whodunit") and Rex Stout ("Watson Was a Woman") appeared in ''The Art of the Mystery Story: A Collection of Critical Essays'', edited by Howard Haycroft (Simon and Schuster, 1946). Cuppy likened Wolfe to Falstaff in 1936, in his review of ''The Rubber Band''. In 1959, Stout's beloved character Hattie Annis stated the comparison to Wolfe himself, immediately after being introduced to him in the novella "[[Counterfeit for Murder]]".}}

Stout also wrote several non-Wolfe mystery novels during the 1930s, but none approached the success of the Nero Wolfe books. In 1937, Stout's novel ''[[The Hand in the Glove]]'' introduced the character of Theodolinda "Dol" Bonner, a female private detective who is an early and significant example of the female PI as fictional protagonist. Bonner would also appear as a character in some later Nero Wolfe stories. Stout also created two other detective protagonists, [[Tecumseh Fox]] (who appeared in three books) and [[Alphabet Hicks]] (one book). His novel ''[[Red Threads]]'' featured [[Inspector Cramer]], a familiar character from the Wolfe books, working on his own. After 1938, Stout wrote no fiction but mysteries, and after 1941, almost entirely Nero Wolfe stories.

During World War II, Stout cut back on his detective writing to focus on war-related activities. For four years, he chaired the [[Writers' War Board]], which coordinated the volunteer services of American writers to help the war effort. He also joined the Fight for Freedom organization and hosted three weekly radio shows. After the war, in addition to continuing to write the Nero Wolfe books, Stout supported democracy and world government. He served as president of the [[Authors Guild]] and of the [[Mystery Writers of America]], which in 1959 presented Stout with the Grand Master Award – the pinnacle of achievement in the mystery field.

Stout was a longtime friend of British humorist [[P. G. Wodehouse]], writer of the [[Jeeves]] novels and short stories. Each was a fan of the other's work, and parallels are evident between their characters and techniques. Wodehouse contributed the foreword to ''Rex Stout: A Biography'', John McAleer's [[Edgar Award]]-winning 1977 biography of the author (reissued in 2002 as ''Rex Stout: A Majesty's Life''). Wodehouse also mentions Rex Stout in several of his Jeeves books, as both Bertie and his Aunt Dahlia are fans.

===Public activities===
In the fall of 1925, [[Roger Nash Baldwin]] appointed Rex Stout to the board of the [[American Civil Liberties Union]]'s powerful National Council on Censorship; Stout served one term.<ref name="McAleer"/>{{Rp|196–197|date=October 2013}} Stout helped start the radical Marxist magazine ''[[The New Masses]]'', which succeeded ''[[The Masses]]'' and ''[[The Liberator (magazine)|The Liberator]]'' in 1926.<ref>{{cite book |last=Aaron |first=Daniel |author-link=Daniel Aaron |date=1992 |title=Writers on the Left: Episodes in Literary Communism |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=smr4WKZNUEMC&q=rex+stout+clarence+darrow&pg=PA102 |location=New York |publisher=[[Columbia University Press]] |page=102 |isbn=9780231080385 }}</ref> He had been told that the magazine was primarily committed to bringing arts and letters to the masses, but he realized after a few issues "that it was Communist and intended to stay Communist", and he ended his association with it.<ref name="McAleer"/>{{Rp|197–198|date=October 2013}}

Stout was one of the officers and directors of the [[Vanguard Press]], a publishing house established with a grant from the [[Garland Fund]] to reprint left-wing classics at an affordable cost and publish new books otherwise deemed "unpublishable" by the commercial press of the day. He served as Vanguard's first president from 1926 to 1928, and continued as vice president until at least 1931. During his tenure, Vanguard issued 150 titles, including seven books by [[Scott Nearing]] and three of Stout's own novels—''How Like a God'' (1929), ''Seed on the Wind'' (1930), and ''Golden Remedy'' (1931).<ref name="McAleer"/>{{Rp|196–197|date=October 2013}}

In 1942, Stout described himself as a "pro-Labor, pro-[[New Deal]], pro-Roosevelt left liberal".<ref name=Manly>{{cite web |url=http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Harold%20Dies%20Committee%20Files/Dies%203-Ring%20Gray%20Binder/Dies%20Binder%2030.pdf |title=Manly, Chesly, 'Writer's War Board' Aids Smear Campaign. |publisher=[[Washington Times-Herald]], June 4, 1942. The Harold Weisberg Archive, Digital Collection, [[Hood College]] |access-date=2013-10-25}}</ref>

During [[World War II]], he worked with the advocacy group Friends of Democracy, chaired the [[Writers' War Board]] (a propaganda organization), and supported the [[Declaration by United Nations|embryonic United Nations]]. He lobbied for [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] to accept a fourth term as president. He developed an extreme anti-German attitude and wrote the provocative essay "We Shall Hate, or We Shall Fail"<ref>"[http://www.nerowolfe.org/pdf/stout/activism/war-time/1943_01_NYTimes_We_shall_hate_or_we_shall_fail.pdf We Shall Hate, or We Shall Fail]" (PDF), ''[[The New York Times]]'', January 17, 1943, with response by [[Walter Russell Bowie]] and reply from Rex Stout; at The Wolfe Pack. Retrieved 2013-10-18.</ref> which generated a flood of protests after its January 1943 publication in ''The New York Times''.<ref name="Townsend">{{cite book |editor1-last=Townsend |editor1-first=Guy M. |editor2-last=McAleer |editor2-first=John J. |editor3-last=Sapp |editor3-first=Judson C. |editor4-last=Schemer |editor4-first=Arriean |date=1980 |title=Rex Stout: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography |location=New York and London |publisher=Garland Publishing, Inc.|isbn=0-8240-9479-4 }}</ref>{{Rp|95}} The attitude is expressed by Nero Wolfe in the 1942 novella "[[Not Quite Dead Enough (novella)|Not Quite Dead Enough]]".

On August 9, 1942, Stout conducted the first of 62 wartime broadcasts of ''[[Our Secret Weapon]]'' on [[CBS Radio]]. The idea for the counterpropaganda series had been that of Sue Taylor White, wife of [[Paul White (journalist)|Paul White]], the first director of [[CBS News]]. Research was done under White's direction. "Hundreds of Axis propaganda broadcasts, beamed not merely to the Allied countries but to neutrals, were sifted weekly", wrote Stout's biographer John McAleer. "Rex himself, for an average of twenty hours a week, pored over the typewritten yellow sheets of accumulated data ... Then, using a dialogue format – Axis commentators making their assertions, and Rex Stout, the lie detective, offering his refutations – he dictated to his secretary the script of the fifteen-minute broadcast." By November 1942, Berlin Radio was reporting that "Rex Stout himself has cut his own production in detective stories from four to one a year and is devoting the entire balance of his time to writing official war propaganda." ''Newsweek'' described Stout as "stripping Axis short-wave propaganda down to the barest nonsensicals ... There's no doubt of its success."<ref name="Townsend"/>{{Rp|121–122|date=October 2013}}<ref name="McAleer"/>{{Rp|305–307}}

In September 1942, Stout defended FDR's policy of sending Japanese-Americans to concentration camps in a debate with the Socialist civil libertarian [[Norman Thomas]]. Stout charged "that Japanese-Americans include more fifth columnists than any other comparable group in the United States." When Thomas condemned the military's role as a "disgrace to our democracy" and comparable to "the powers of totalitarian dictators," Stout responded that moving "Japanese-Americans inland hardly constitutes Totalitarianism."<ref>{{cite book | last=Beito | first=David T. | title=The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance | edition=First | pages=185| location=Oakland | publisher=Independent Institute | year=2023 | isbn=978-1598133561}}</ref>

During the later part of the war and the post-war period, he also led the [[Society for the Prevention of World War III]] which lobbied for a harsh peace for Germany. When the war ended, Stout became active in the [[United World Federalists]].<ref>Steven Casey, "The campaign to sell a harsh peace for Germany to the American public, 1944–1948." ''History'' 90.297 (2005): 62–92. [http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/archive/00000736 online]</ref>

[[House Un-American Activities Committee#Dies Committee (1938–1944)|House Committee on Un-American Activities]] chairman [[Martin Dies, Jr.|Martin Dies]] called him a Communist, and Stout is reputed to have said to him, "I hate Communists as much as you do, Martin, but there's one difference between us. I know what a Communist is and you don't."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/29497223/ |title=CLAP-TRAP Some Quips That Flew In From the Air Front |date=26 April 1945 |publisher=[[Amarillo Globe-News|Amarillo Globe-Times]], April 26, 1945 |access-date=2013-10-26}}</ref>

Stout was one of many American writers closely watched by [[J. Edgar Hoover]]'s FBI. Hoover considered him an enemy of the bureau and either a Communist or a tool of Communist-dominated groups. Stout's leadership of the [[Authors Guild|Authors League of America]] during the [[McCarthyism|McCarthy era]] was particularly irksome to the FBI. About a third of Stout's FBI file is devoted to his 1965 novel ''[[The Doorbell Rang]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Mitgang |first=Herbert |author-link=Herbert Mitgang |date=1988 |title=Dangerous Dossiers: Exposing the Secret War Against America's Greatest Authors |location=New York |publisher=Donald I. Fine |isbn=1-55611-077-4 |url=https://archive.org/details/dangerousdossier00mitg_0 }}</ref>{{Rp|216–217, 227}}{{efn|For more information, see the articles on [[Where There's a Will (novel)#The FBI and "Sisters in Trouble"|''Where There's a Will'']] and [[The Doorbell Rang#The FBI and The Doorbell Rang|''The Doorbell Rang'']].}}{{efn|In its April 1976 report, the [[Church Committee]] found that ''The Doorbell Rang'' is a reason that Rex Stout's name was one of 332 placed on the FBI's "not to contact list", which it cited as evidence of the FBI's political abuse of intelligence information.<ref>{{cite book |last=Final Report of the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities |date=1976 |chapter=E. Political Abuse of Intelligence Information, subfinding c, footnote 91 |title=Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans, Book II |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/finalreportofsel02unit#page/239/mode/1up |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |page=239 }}</ref>}}

== Later years and death ==

In later years, Stout alienated some readers{{specify|date=June 2024}} with his hawkish stance on the [[Vietnam War]] and with the contempt for [[communism]] expressed in certain of his works. The latter viewpoint is given voice in the 1952 novella "[[Home to Roost (short story)|Home to Roost]]" (first published as "Nero Wolfe and the Communist Killer") and most notably in the 1949 novel ''[[The Second Confession]]''. In this work, Archie and Wolfe express their dislike for "Commies", while at the same time Wolfe arranges for the firing of a virulently anti-Communist broadcaster, likening him to Hitler and Mussolini.

Stout continued writing until just before his death. He died on October 27, 1975, at the age of 88 at his estate, High Meadow, on the New York/Connecticut border.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://findingaids.bc.edu/repositories/2/resources/94 | title=Collection: Rex Stout papers &#124; Search Burns Archives }}</ref>

==Reception and influence==
[[Image:Rex Stout 1973.jpg|right|thumb|Rex Stout in 1973]]
{{blockquote|If he had done nothing more than to create Archie Goodwin, Rex Stout would deserve the gratitude of whatever assessors watch over the prosperity of American literature. For surely Archie is one of the folk heroes in which the modern American temper can see itself transfigured.|[[Jacques Barzun]]<ref>''A Birthday Tribute to Rex Stout'', The Viking Press, 1965; reprinted by permission in ''The Rex Stout Journal'', number 2, Spring 1985, pp. 4–9</ref>}}

===Awards and recognition===
* In his seminal 1941 work, ''Murder for Pleasure'', crime fiction historian Howard Haycraft included the first two Nero Wolfe novels, ''[[Fer-de-Lance (novel)|Fer-de-Lance]]'' and ''[[The League of Frightened Men]]'', in his list of the most influential works of mystery fiction.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.classiccrimefiction.com/haycraftqueen.htm |title=Haycraft Queen Cornerstones Complete Checklist |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |publisher=Classic Crime Fiction.com |access-date=2015-03-22}}</ref>
* In 1958, Rex Stout became the 14th president of the [[Mystery Writers of America]].<ref name="McAleer"/>{{Rp|428}}
* In 1959, Stout received the MWA's prestigious Grand Master Award, which represents the pinnacle of achievement in the mystery field.<ref name="McAleer"/>{{Rp|429}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://theedgars.com/awards/ |title=Edgars Database |website=[[Edgar Award|The Edgar Awards]] |publisher=[[Mystery Writers of America]] |access-date=2015-03-22 |archive-date=2020-07-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731232503/http://theedgars.com/awards/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* In January 1969, the [[Crime Writers' Association]] selected Stout as recipient of its Silver Dagger Award for ''[[The Father Hunt]]'', which it named "the best crime novel by a non-British author in 1969."<ref name="McAleer"/>{{Rp|499}}
* The Nero Wolfe corpus was nominated Best Mystery Series of the Century at the [[Bouchercon XXXI]] mystery convention, and Rex Stout was nominated Best Mystery Writer of the Century.<ref name="Walker">{{cite news |last=Walker |first=Tom |date=September 10, 2000 |title=Mystery writers shine light on best: Bouchercon 2000 convention honors authors |newspaper=[[The Denver Post]] }}</ref>{{efn|The other four nominees for Mystery Writer of the Century at [[Bouchercon XXXI]] were [[Raymond Chandler]], [[Agatha Christie]], [[Dashiell Hammett]] and [[Dorothy Sayers]]. Christie received the award, and Christie's Hercule Poirot was named Best Mystery Series of the Century.<ref name="Walker"/>}}
* In 2014, Rex Stout was selected to the [[New York State Writers Hall of Fame]].

===Cultural references===
"A number of the paintings of [[René Magritte]] (1898–1967), the internationally famous Belgian painter, are named after titles of books by Rex Stout," wrote Harry Torczyner, Magritte's attorney and friend.<ref name="McAleer"/>{{Rp|578}}{{efn|McAleer quotes a letter dated May 24, 1974, that he received from Torczyner, a New York collector who was also [[Georges Simenon]]'s attorney.}}{{efn|"We know the importance granted to the words by Magritte in his paintings and we know the impact that literary works such as [[Edgar Allan Poe|Poe]]'s, Rex Stout's or [[Stéphane Mallarmé|Mallarmé]]'s had on him," wrote the [[Magritte Museum]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.magrittemuseum.be/code/en/main2_3.htm |title=The Brussels Surrealist Group |publisher=[[Magritte Museum]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101125000329/http://magrittemuseum.be/code/en/main2_3.htm |archive-date=November 25, 2010 |access-date=2015-03-22}}</ref>}} "He read Hegel, Heidegger and Sartre, as well as [[Dashiell Hammett]], Rex Stout and [[Georges Simenon]]," the ''[[Times Higher Education]] Supplement'' wrote of Magritte. "Some of his best titles were 'found' in this way."<ref>{{cite journal |last=Danchev |first=Alex |date=June 30, 2011 |title=Canny Resemblance |url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=416652&sectioncode=26 |journal=Times Higher Education Supplement |access-date=2015-03-22}}</ref> Magritte's 1942 painting ''Les compagnons de la peur'' ("The Companions of Fear") bears the title given to ''[[The League of Frightened Men]]'' (1935) when it was published in France by [[Éditions Gallimard|Gallimard]] (1939). It is one of Magritte's series of "leaf-bird" paintings, created during the Nazi occupation of Brussels. It depicts a stormy, mountainous landscape in which a cluster of plants has metamorphosed into a group of vigilant owls.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mattesonart.com/1931-1942-brussels--pre-war-years.aspx |title=Rene Magritte Gallery, 1931–1942 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=Matteson Art |access-date=2015-03-22}}</ref>

Stout is also mentioned in Ian Fleming's James Bond book ''[[On Her Majesty's Secret Service (novel)|On Her Majesty's Secret Service]]'' (1963).{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}

===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"/>

==Bibliography==
{{Main|Rex Stout bibliography}}

==Select radio credits==
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| February 28, 1939
| [[Blue Network|NBC]]
| 30 min.
| ''[[Information Please]]''
| Cast: [[Clifton Fadiman]] (host), [[John Kieran]], [[Franklin P. Adams]], [[Heywood Broun]], Rex Stout<ref name="Grams Info Please">
{{cite book |last=Grams |first=Martin Jr. |author-link=Martin Grams Jr. |date=2003 |title=Information, Please |url= |location=Albany, Georgia |publisher=BearManor Media |isbn=0-9714570-7-7}}</ref>{{Rp|155}}

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| March 28, 1939
| NBC
| 30 min.
| ''Information Please''
| Cast: Clifton Fadiman (host), John Kieran, Franklin P. Adams, Rex Stout, Moss Hart<ref name="Goldin Info"/>
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| August 29, 1939
| NBC
| 30 min.
| ''Information Please''
| Cast: Clifton Fadiman (host), John Kieran, Franklin P. Adams, Rex Stout, [[Wilfred John Funk|Wilfred J. Funk]]<ref name="Goldin Info">{{cite web |url=http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=Information%20Please |title=Information Please |publisher=RadioGOLDINdex |access-date=2015-03-20 |archive-date=2014-02-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222132525/http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=Information%20Please |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
| September&nbsp;26,&nbsp;1939
| NBC
| 30 min.
| ''Information Please''
| Cast: Clifton Fadiman (host), John Kieran, Franklin P. Adams, Rex Stout, [[Carl Clinton Van Doren|Carl Van Doren]]<ref name="Goldin Info"/>
|-
| September&nbsp;27,&nbsp;1940
|
|
| ''Democratic Women's Day''
| Radio address from a dinner sponsored by the Women's National Democratic Club<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/myday/displaydoc.cfm?_y=1940&_f=md055696 |title=My Day |last=Roosevelt |first=Eleanor |author-link=Eleanor Roosevelt |date=September 28, 1940 |website=The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project |publisher=[[George Washington University]] |access-date=2015-03-21}}</ref><br>Speakers: [[Eleanor Roosevelt]], [[Thornton Wilder]], [[Robert E. Sherwood|Robert Sherwood]], [[Edna Ferber]], Rex Stout, [[Alice Duer Miller]], Dr. Frank Kingdon, [[Katharine Hepburn]], [[Marc Connelly]], [[Elmer Rice]], [[Frank Sullivan (writer)|Frank Sullivan]], Henry Curren<ref name="Eleanor Roosevelt">{{cite web |url=http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/utteranceser.html |title=Recorded Speeches and Utterances by Eleanor Roosevelt, 1933–1962 |publisher=Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum |access-date=2015-03-21}}</ref>
|-
| April 17, 1941
| [[NBC Red Network|NBC]]
| 15 min.
| ''Speaking of Liberty''
| Stories of memorable events in the lives of America's founders<ref name="Hickerson">Hickerson, Jay, ''The Ultimate History of Network Radio Programming and Guide to All Circulating Shows''. Hamden, Connecticut: Jay Hickerson, Box 4321, Hamden, CT 06514, second edition December 1992</ref>{{Rp|373}}<br>First of an estimated 29 weekly broadcasts continuing through December 11, 1941, produced in cooperation with the Council for Democracy<br>Guests include [[Louis Adamic]], [[Herbert Agar]], [[Pearl S. Buck]], [[Erskine Caldwell]], [[Carl Carmer]], [[Stuart Chase]], [[Frank Craven]], [[Carl Crow]], [[Ève Curie]], [[Max Eastman]], [[Edward Ellsberg]], Clifton Fadiman, [[Louis Fischer]], [[Dorothy Canfield Fisher]], [[Frank Gervasi]], [[Florence Jaffray Harriman]], [[Fannie Hurst]], [[Margaret Leech]], [[Walter Millis]], [[Bertrand Russell]], [[John R. Tunis]], Carl Van Doren, [[Pierre van Paassen]], Thornton Wilder, [[Alexander Woollcott]], [[Lin Yutang]]<br>Cast: Rex Stout (host), Milton Cross and others (announcers)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/DigitalDeliToo/dd2jb-Speaking-of-Liberty.html |title=Speaking of Liberty |publisher=Digital Deli Too |access-date=2015-03-21}}</ref><ref name="Archive Liberty">{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/SpeakingOfLiberty |title=Speaking of Liberty |publisher=[[Internet Archive]] |access-date=2015-03-21}}</ref>
|-
| April 18, 1941
| NBC
| 30 min.
| ''Information Please''
| Cast: Clifton Fadiman (host), John Kieran, Franklin P. Adams, Rex Stout, Henry H. Curran (chief magistrate of Manhattan)<ref name="Goldin Info"/>
|-
| September 26, 1941
| NBC
| 30 min.
| ''Speaking of Books''
| Discussion of [[Jan Valtin]]'s ''Out of the Night'', from the 51st annual conference of the [[New York Library Association]]<br>Cast: [[Irita Bradford Van Doren|Irita Van Doren]], [[Lewis Gannett]], Rex Stout, Jan Valtin<ref name="McAleer"/>{{Rp|291–292}}<ref>{{cite news |date=September 27, 1941 |title=Librarians on Air with Valtin Book |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1941/09/27/archives/librarians-on-air-with-valtin-book-author-says-he-would-choose.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=2018-07-06 }}</ref>
|-
| January 1942
| [[CBS Radio|CBS]]
| 30 min.
| ''Invitation to Learning''
| Discussion of ''[[The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes]]''<br>Cast: [[Mark Van Doren]] (moderator), Rex Stout, [[Jacques Barzun]], [[Elmer Davis]]{{efn|Transcript published in ''The New Invitation to Learning'' (1942)<ref>{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |year=1942 |chapter=The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |editor-last=Van Doren |editor-first=Mark |title=The New Invitation to Learning |location=New York |publisher=[[Random House]] |publication-date=1942 |pages=235–251 |oclc=2143609 }}</ref>}}<ref name="Townsend"/>{{Rp|121}}<ref name="McAleer"/>{{Rp|298}}
|-
| April 5, 1942
| [[Blue Network|Blue]]
| 15 min.
| ''[[Behind the Mike]]''
| Stout is interviewed by host [[Graham McNamee]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/DigitalDeliToo/dd2jb-Behind-The-Mike.html |title=Behind the Mike |publisher=Digital Deli |access-date=2015-04-02 |archive-date=2015-06-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623053530/http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/DigitalDeliToo/dd2jb-Behind-The-Mike.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
| April 8, 1942
| [[WMCA (AM)|WMCA]]
| 15 min.
| ''The Voice of Freedom''
| Broadcasting anonymously, Stout inaugurates this weekly commentary series presented by [[Freedom House]]<ref>{{cite magazine |date=April 11, 1942 |title=Program Reviews: The Voice of Freedom |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IQwEAAAAMBAJ&q=Voice+of+Freedom+1942+WMCA&pg=PT7 |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|The Billboard]] |volume=54 |issue=15 |page=8 |access-date=March 22, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |date=January 2, 1943 |title=Local Station Wartime Programming |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QwwEAAAAMBAJ&q=Rex+Stout+Voice+of+Freedom&pg=PT25 |magazine=The Billboard |volume=55 |issue=1 |page=26 |access-date=March 22, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/MC187/c00938 |title=Freedom House Records 1933–2014, The Voice of Freedom |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=Princeton University Library Finding Aids |publisher=Princeton University |access-date=March 22, 2015}}</ref><br>"Program packs plenty of punch … handled expertly by 'Mister X'" (''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'')
|-
| August 9, 1942
| CBS
| 15 min.
| ''[[Our&nbsp;Secret&nbsp;Weapon]]''
| Counterpropaganda series in which "lie detective" Stout rebuts the most entertaining [[Axis powers|Axis]] shortwave lies of the week<br>First of 62 weekly broadcasts continuing through October 8, 1943, produced by [[Paul White (journalist)|Paul White]] for CBS and Freedom House<br>Cast: Rex Stout, Paul Luther, Guy Repp, Ted Osborne, John Dietz (director)<ref name="Townsend"/>{{Rp|121–122}}<ref name="Goldin Secret">{{cite web|url=http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=Our%20Secret%20Weapon |title=Our Secret Weapon |publisher=RadioGOLDINdex |access-date=2015-03-20}}</ref><ref name="Dunningota">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fi5wPDBiGfMC&dq=%22Our+Secret+Weapon,+counterpropaganda%22&pg=PA529 |last=Dunning |first=John |title=On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio |section=Our Secret Weapon |date=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-0-19-507678-3 |page=529 |edition=Hardcover; revised edition of ''Tune In Yesterday'' (1976) |access-date=2025-01-16}}</ref>
|-
| January 23, 1943
| CBS
| 30 min.
| ''The People's Platform''
| "Is Germany Incurable?"<br>Writers' War Board panel discussion marking the tenth anniversary of Adolf Hitler's rise to power<br>Cast: Rex Stout, Alexander Woollcott, [[Marcia Davenport]], Hunter College president George Shuster, [[Brooklyn College]] president [[Harry Gideonse]]<ref name="McAleer"/>{{Rp|318–319}}<br>Woollcott is stricken midway through the broadcast and dies a few hours later<ref name="McAleer"/>{{Rp|319–320}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://library.brooklyn.cuny.edu/pages/archives/findaid/Woollcott/BioWoollcott.html |title=Biographical Note, Letters of Alexander Woollcott |publisher=Brooklyn College Library and Archives |access-date=2015-03-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141009205954/http://library.brooklyn.cuny.edu/pages/archives/findaid/Woollcott/BioWoollcott.html |archive-date=2014-10-09 }}</ref>
|-
| March 30, 1943
| [[Mutual Broadcasting System|Mutual]]
| 30 min.
| ''This Is Our Enemy''
| Series produced by Frank Telford for the [[United States Office of War Information]]<ref>Dunning, op. cit., [https://books.google.com/books?id=EwtRbXNca0oC&dq=%22This+Is+Our+Enemy+dramatic%22&pg=PA666 "This Is Our Enemy" p. 666]</ref><br>"Axis Propaganda Methods"<br>Stout introduces dramatizations that show how the enemy uses propaganda to weaken American morale<br>Cast: Rex Stout, [[Jackson Beck]], [[Arnold Moss]], Charlotte Holland, Irene Hubbard, Lenny Hoffman, [[Peter Capell]], Ian Martin, Bill Martin, Ed Latimer, [[Ted Jewett]], Guy Repp, Nathan Van Cleve (composer, conductor)<ref name="Goldin Enemy">{{cite web|url=http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=This%20Is%20Our%20Enemy |title=This Is Our Enemy |publisher=RadioGOLDINdex |access-date=2015-03-20}}</ref>
|-
| April 27, 1943
| Mutual
| 30 min.
| ''This Is Our Enemy''
| "March to the Gallows"<br>Stout addresses the audience at the end of a program dramatizing the stories of well-known traitors including [[Vidkun Quisling]]<ref name="Goldin Enemy"/>
|-
| October 13, 1943
| [[WEPN (AM)#WHN|WHN]]
| 30 min.
| ''Author Meets the Critics''
| A discussion with John Roy Carlson, author of ''Under Cover: My Four Years in the Nazi Underworld of America''<br>Cast: [[Max Lerner]], [[Victor Riesel]], Rex Stout<ref name="DD Author">{{cite web|url=http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/DigitalDeliToo/dd2jb-Author-Meets-The-Critics.html |title=Author Meets the Critics |publisher=Digital Deli |access-date=2015-04-02}}</ref>
|-
| February 2, 1944
| WHN
| 30 min.
| ''Author Meets the Critics''
| A discussion with [[Louis Nizer]]<br>Cast: John K. M. McCaffrey (host), Russell Hill, Rex Stout<ref name="DD Author"/>
|-
| March 5, 1944
| [[Cumulus Media Networks|ABC]]
| 30 min.
| ''Wake Up America''
| "What Should Be Done With Defeated Germany?"<br>Debate between Rex Stout and Paul Hagen,{{efn|Paul Hagen is the pseudonym adopted by Karl Boromäus Frank, a member of the underground in Nazi Germany<ref>{{cite journal |last=Woolbert |first=Robert Gale |date=October 1945 |title=Germany After Hitler |url=http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/110534/paul-hagen/germany-after-hitler |journal=[[Foreign Affairs]] |volume=24 |issue=October 1945 |publisher=[[Council on Foreign Relations]] |access-date=2015-03-25}}</ref>}} author of ''Germany After Hitler''<ref name="Goldin Wake">{{cite web|url=http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=Wake%20Up%20America |title=Wake Up America |publisher=RadioGOLDINdex |access-date=2015-03-20}}</ref>
|-
| October 24, 1944
| ABC
| 30 min.
| ''Wake Up America''
| "Does Any National Emergency Justify a Fourth Term?"<br>Rex Stout and commentator Upton Close take questions<ref name="Goldin Wake"/>
|-
| March 24, 1945
| CBS
| 30 min.
| ''A Report to the Nation''
| Program includes an interview with Rex Stout after his return from Europe, where he asked Germans what they thought about democracy<br>Cast: [[John Daly (radio and television personality)|John Daly]] (host), [[Richard C. Hottelet]], Rex Stout, [[Brian Aherne]], [[Clare Boothe Luce]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=A%20Report%20To%20The%20Nation |title=A Report to the Nation |publisher=RadioGOLDINdex |access-date=2015-03-20}}</ref>
|-
| 1945
| Synd
| 30 min.
| ''Win the Peace''
| Wartime roundtable discussion about the proposals for a United Nations organization<br>Cast: Edgar Ansel Morra (foreign correspondent), Harry Gideonese, Rex Stout, [[Virginia Gildersleeve]], William Agar (acting president of Freedom House)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=Win%20The%20Peace |title=Win the Peace |publisher=RadioGOLDINdex |access-date=2015-03-20}}</ref>
|-
| December 5, 1946
| Mutual
| 30 min.
| ''Author Meets the Critics''
| Cast: John K. M. McCaffrey (host), [[Paul Gallico]], Virgilia Peterson, Rex Stout<ref name="Hickerson"/>{{Rp|27}}<ref name="DD Author"/>
|-
| January 2, 1949
| NBC
| 30 min.
| ''[[Author Meets the Critics]]''
| A discussion of ''Larks in the Popcorn'' with guest author [[H. Allen Smith]]<br>Cast: John K. M. McCaffrey (host), [[Eloise McElhone]], Rex Stout<ref>{{cite web|url=http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=Author%20Meets%20The%20Critics |title=Author Meets the Critics |publisher=RadioGOLDINdex |access-date=2015-03-20}}</ref>
|-
| October 12, 1950
|
| 30 min.
| ''United World Federalists''
| Report on the fourth annual meeting of the United World Federalists<br>Cast: Jean Putnam, Rex Stout, [[William O. Douglas]], [[Raymond Gram Swing]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=United%20World%20Federalists |title=United World Federalists |publisher=RadioGOLDINdex |access-date=2015-03-20}}</ref>
|-
| July 30, 1951
| NBC
| 45 min.
| ''The Eleanor Roosevelt Program''
| Program includes an interview with Rex Stout<ref name="Eleanor Roosevelt"/><ref>Dunning, op. cit., [https://books.google.com/books?id=Fi5wPDBiGfMC&dq=%22Eleanor+Roosevelt+talk%22&pg=PA230 "Eleanor Roosevelt" pp. 230-231]</ref>
|-
| March 11, 1965
| [[WNYC]]
| 30 min.
| ''Authors and Critics Gathering''
| "What do I think about book reviews and book reviewers?"<br>Stout discusses his concerns about the copyright act and asks critics to write about it<br>Cast: Rex Stout (moderator), [[C. D. B. Bryan]], [[Ralph Ellison]], Muriel Resnick, [[Barbara Tuchman]], [[Edward Albee]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=Authors%20and%20Critics |title=Authors and Critics |publisher=RadioGOLDINdex |access-date=2015-03-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wnyc.org/story/authors-and-critics-gathering/ |title=Authors and Critics Gathering|publisher=WNYC New York Public Radio |access-date=2015-03-21}}</ref>
|-
| February 14, 1966
| WNYC
| 60 min.
| ''Book and Author Luncheon''
| Program includes Rex Stout discussing ''The Doorbell Rang''<br>Cast: Maurice Dolbier (host), Helen Hayes, William O. Douglas<ref>{{cite web|url=http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=Books%20and%20Authors%20Luncheon |title=Book and Author Luncheon |publisher=RadioGOLDINdex |access-date=2015-03-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wnyc.org/story/rex-stout-helen-hayes-and-william-o-douglas/ |title=Book and Author Luncheon: Rex Stout, Helen Hayes, and William O. Douglas |publisher=WNYC New York Public Radio |access-date=2015-03-21}}</ref>
|}

==Select television credits==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! class="unsortable" | Date
! class="unsortable" | Network
! class="unsortable" | Length
! class="unsortable" | Series
! class="unsortable" | Detail
|-
| February 16, 1949
| ABC
| 30 min.
| ''Critic at Large''
| "Are Detective Stories Getting Better or Worse?"<br>Moderator [[John Mason Brown]]; guests Clifton Fadiman, Howard Haycraft, Rex Stout and [[J. Scott Smart]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ctva.biz/US/TalkShow/CriticAtLarge.htm |title=Critic at Large (1948–49) |publisher=Classic TV Archive |access-date=2016-01-14}}</ref>
|-
| November 8, 1951
| [[DuMont Television Network|DuMont]]
| 30 min.
| ''[[Crawford Mystery Theatre]]''
| "The Case of the Devil's Heart"<br>Mystery writers and other guests watch a 20-minute filmed episode of the 1947–48 series ''[[Public Prosecutor (TV series)|Public Prosecutor]]'' and guess the solution<br>Moderator [[Warren Hull]]; guest panelists Rex Stout, [[Glenn Langan]] and [[Betty Buehler]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ctva.biz/US/Crime/PublicProsecutor.htm |title=Public Prosecutor (1947–48), Crawford Mystery Theatre (1951–52) |publisher=Classic TV Archive |access-date=2016-01-14}}</ref>
|-
| December 9, 1956
| ABC
| 90 min.
| ''[[Omnibus (US TV series)|Omnibus]]''
| "The Fine Art of Murder" (40 minutes)<br>"A homicide as Sir [[Arthur Conan Doyle]], [[Edgar Allan Poe]] [and] Rex Stout would variously present it" (''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'')<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,808743,00.html?promoid=go |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210024132/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,808743,00.html?promoid=go |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 10, 2008 |title=Program Preview |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=December 10, 1956 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |access-date=2015-03-22}}</ref><br>Cast: [[Alistair Cooke]] (host), [[Gene Reynolds]] (Archie Goodwin), Robert Eckles (Nero Wolfe), [[James Daly (actor)|James Daly]] (narrator), [[Dennis Hoey]] (Arthur Conan Doyle), Felix Munro (Edgar Allan Poe), [[Herb Voland|Herbert Voland]] ([[C. Auguste Dupin|M. Dupin]]), Jack Sydow, Rex Stout<ref>{{cite journal |date=December 8–14, 1956 |title=Omnibus: The Fine Art of Murder |journal=[[TV Guide (magazine)|TV Guide]] |page=A-18 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tv.com/omnibus/the-fine-art-of-murder/episode/794825/summary.html?tag=ep_list;title;9 |title=The Fine Art of Murder |website=Omnibus |publisher=[[TV.com]] |access-date=2015-03-22 |archive-date=2008-12-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081211013741/http://www.tv.com/omnibus/the-fine-art-of-murder/episode/794825/summary.html?tag=ep_list;title;9 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title='Art of Murder' Steals Onto Omnibus Tonight |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2229&dat=19561209&id=DnEmAAAAIBAJ&pg=4265,2037648&hl=en |newspaper=Sunday Herald |location=Bridgeport, Connecticut |date=December 9, 1956 |access-date=2015-03-25 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Crosby |first=John |date=December 17, 1956 |title='Omnibus' Explores New TV Programming |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19561217&id=KSVSAAAAIBAJ&pg=7259,1226187&hl=en |newspaper=[[Tampa Bay Times|St. Petersburg Times]] |access-date=2015-03-25 }}</ref><br>Writer [[Sidney Carroll]] received the 1957 [[Edgar Award]] for Best Episode in a TV Series<ref>[http://theedgars.com/edgarsDB/index.php Edgar Awards Database] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404232840/http://www.theedgars.com/edgarsDB/index.php |date=2019-04-04 }}; retrieved December 3, 2011</ref><br>Episode is in the collection of the Library of Congress (VBE 2397–2398)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/pickford/2000-archive.html |title=Archive of past screenings: 2000 Schedule |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=February 15, 2000 |website=[[Mary Pickford Theater]] |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |access-date=2015-03-21}}</ref>
|-
| February 3, 1957
| CBS
| 60 min.
| ''Odyssey''
| "The Baker Street Irregulars"<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,723801,00.html |title=Program Preview |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=February 4, 1957 |magazine=Time |access-date=2015-03-23}}</ref><br>A program devoted to Sherlock Holmes that includes the first look inside [[The Baker Street Irregulars]], with film of the organization's annual dinner January 11, 1957<br>Includes remarks by Stout, and a dramatization of "The Red Headed League" recorded at a special BSI meeting December 14, 1956, at Cavanagh's Restaurant, New York City<ref>{{cite book |title=The Baker Street Irregulars |last=Ebin |first=David |date=February 3, 1957 |publisher=[[WorldCat]] |oclc = 62689668}}</ref><br>Preserved on kinescope<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/trustees.html |title=Board of Trustees; Bill Vande Water |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |publisher=The Baker Street Irregulars Trust |access-date=2015-03-22}}</ref><br>Cast: [[Charles Collingwood (journalist)|Charles Collingwood]] (host), Rex Stout, [[Richard H. Hoffmann]], Edgar W. Smith, [[Red Smith (sportswriter)|Red Smith]], Michael Clarke Laurence (Sherlock Holmes), Donald Marye (Wilson), Harry Gresham (Hargreave)<ref name="RS Media">{{cite journal |last=McAleer |first=John |date=1989 |title=Rex Stout and the Media |url=http://www.nerowolfe.org/htm/stout/author_media.htm#radio |journal=Rex Stout Journal |issue= 5 |location=Ashton, Maryland |publisher=Pontes Press |pages=41–44 |access-date=2015-03-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402133000/http://www.nerowolfe.org/htm/stout/author_media.htm#radio |archive-date=2015-04-02 }}</ref>
|-
| September 16, 1957
| CBS
| 60 min.
| ''[[Studio One (U.S. TV series)|Studio One]]''
| "First Prize for Murder"<br>At the annual banquet of the Mystery Writers of America, novelist Nathaniel Arch fails to appear to receive his award. A stranger shows up who is anxious to find the writer, who is suspected of murder.<br>Live drama by Phil Reisman, from an idea by [[John D. MacDonald]]<br>Cast: [[Darren McGavin]] (Johnny Quigg), [[Robert F. Simon|Robert Simon]], [[Barbara O'Neil]]<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Monday Evening Television Programs; Recommended |newspaper=Bristol Daily Courier-Times |location=Bristol, Pennsylvania |date=September 16, 1957 }}</ref> (Mrs. Cory), [[Jonathan Harris]] (Master of Ceremonies), [[Philip Coolidge]] (Severns), [[Colleen Dewhurst]], [[Larry Hagman]], [[Ross Martin]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ctva.biz/US/Anthology/StudioOne_10_%281957-58%29.htm |title=Westinghouse Studio One |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |publisher=Classic TV Archive |access-date=2015-03-24}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Studio One – First Prize for Murder |last=Reisman |first=Phil |date=September 16, 1957 |publisher=WorldCat |oclc = 24005035}}</ref><br>Appearing as themselves are Rex Stout, [[George Harmon Coxe]], [[Brett Halliday]], Frances and [[Richard Lockridge]] and [[Georges Simenon]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nerowolfe.org/htm/stout/author_media.htm#radio |title=Rex Stout Media Coverage |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |publisher=The Wolfe Pack |access-date=2015-03-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402133000/http://www.nerowolfe.org/htm/stout/author_media.htm#radio |archive-date=2015-04-02 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://thetrapofsolidgold.blogspot.com/2010/01/jdm-on-television-part-2.html |title=JDM on Television, Part 2 |last=Smith |first=Steve |date=January 22, 2010 |website=The Trap of Solid Gold |access-date=2015-03-24}}</ref>
|-
| April 5, 1959
| CBS
| 30 min.
| ''The Last Word''
| Cast: [[Bergen Evans]] (host), Rex Stout, editor [[Russell Lynes]]<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Some of Top Programs Coming Week |newspaper=Austin Daily Herald |location=Austin, Minnesota |date=April 4, 1959 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Rex Stout to Appear on 'Last Word' Today |newspaper=Racine Sunday Bulletin |location=Racine, Wisconsin |date=April 5, 1959 }}</ref> 
|-
| September&nbsp;2,&nbsp;1969
| ABC
| 60 min.
| ''[[The&nbsp;Dick&nbsp;Cavett&nbsp;Show]]''
| [[Dick Cavett]]'s guests include Rex Stout<ref name="McAleer"/>{{Rp|495}}
|-
| 1973
| [[WTTW]]
| 30 min.
| ''Book Beat''
| "Book Beat On Tour"<br>Chicago journalist Robert Cromie records an interview with Stout at his home in Brewster, New York, on April 24, 1973<ref name="McAleer"/>{{Rp|509}}<br>Program airs on [[PBS|public television]] stations nationwide beginning in November 1973<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Saturday KERA Highlights |newspaper=[[Abilene Reporter-News]] |date=November 18, 1973 }}</ref>
|}

==Notes==
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==References==
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* [http://www.nerowolfe.org The Wolfe Pack], official site of the Nero Wolfe Society
* [http://www.oocities.org/wrlouis/nero.html Merely a Genius...], Winnifred Louis' fan site dedicated to Nero Wolfe including a complete annotated bibliography
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070930102533/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,913690,00.html ''Time''] obituary (November 10, 1975)
* [http://markfullmer.com/mcaleer/index.html John J. McAleer: The Making of Rex Stout's Biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210035346/http://markfullmer.com/mcaleer/index.html |date=2008-12-10 }} (Mark Fullmer)
* Stout's radicalism, the FBI, the books (from the [https://web.archive.org/web/20051027052551/http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/12ref.htm#RexStout Daily Bleed Calendar])
* [http://avenarius.sk/stout a comprehensive overview of Rex Stout's work and biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030210220218/http://avenarius.sk/stout/ |date=2003-02-10 }}
* [http://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/2009/01/tt-forty-years-with-nero-wolfe.html Forty years with Nero Wolfe] (January 12, 2009) by [[Terry Teachout]]
* [https://archive.today/20130113202045/http://stout.avenarius.sk/ ''wiki'' collections of quotations] from Rex Stout's works
* [http://fiction.eserver.org/short/stout/ Ten Rex Stout stories] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511213705/http://fiction.eserver.org/short/stout |date=2008-05-11 }} (1913–1917) at [[EServer.org|The EServer]] (Iowa State University)
* {{Gutenberg author |id=279 | name=Rex Stout}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Rex Todhunter Stout}}
* {{Librivox author |id=897}}
* [http://www.classiccrimefiction.com/stoutbib.htm Bibliography of Stout's first editions in the United Kingdom]
* [[q:Wikiquote:Quote of the day/December 1, 2013|Wikiquote: Quote of the Day]], December 1, 2013
* [http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1132 Rex Stout papers] at John J. Burns Library, [[Boston College]] (PDF)
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