They divorced in 1932 and Stout married in the same year Pola Weinbach Hoffmann, a designer who had studied with Josef Hoffmann in Vienna, Austria. In 1916, Stout married Fay Kennedy of Topeka, Kansas. schools adopted his system for keeping track of the money school children saved in accounts at school, and he was paid royalties. It was not his writing but his invention of a school banking system in about 1916 that gave him enough money to travel in Europe extensively. Navy (as a yeoman on President Teddy Roosevelt's official yacht) and then spent about the next four years working at about thirty different jobs (in six states), including cigar store clerk, while he sold poems, stories, and articles to various magazines. His sister, Ruth Stout, also authored several books on no-work gardening and some social commentaries. Stout attended Topeka High School, Kansas, and the University of Kansas, Lawrence. He was the state spelling bee champion at age 13. His father was a teacher who encouraged his son to read, and Rex had read the entire Bible twice by the time he was four years old. The Nero Wolfe corpus was nominated Best Mystery Series of the Century at Bouchercon 2000, the world's largest mystery convention, and Rex Stout was nominated Best Mystery Writer of the Century.Įarly life 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. 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.' Wolfe's assistant Archie Goodwin recorded the cases of the detective genius from 1934 (Fer-de-Lance) to 1975 (A Family Affair). Rex Todhunter Stout (Decem– October 27, 1975) was an American writer noted for his detective fiction.

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