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Rex Stout was a multifaceted personality with a wide range of accomplishments and interests. He is most widely known as the author of the Nero Wolfe Mystery Series. However, before the Nero Wolfe series, he made a living as a writer of pulp fiction (1910--1918). He also published a number of non-mystery novels from 1929-1938 and a few non-Wolfe mystery stories from 1937 – 1941).
During World War II , he virtually stopped writing except to support the war effort. Throughout his life Rex Stout wrote to explain, propound, and argue his points of view on a wide range of political, social, and other issues.
He received wide media coverage, including radio and television productions and interviews.
"Mystery Writer Reaches for the Sky" (photo op. of grandsons re-enacting "The Counterfeiter's Knife" or "Counterfeit for Murder") (Saturday Evening Post, January 28, 1961)
Chicago Tribune "Arts & Fun/Books Section 7 devoted to Rex Stout ( July 28, 1974 with articles by Robert Goldsborough, Nelson Polsby, Timonthy Dickinson and Rhoda Koenig, and John Hess, plus a Nerophile Quiz and quotes regarding Rex Stout from many famous authors)