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Rex Todhunter Stout war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller.

Er wurde bekannt durch seine Kriminalromane um den übergewichtigen Privatdetektiv Nero Wolfe. Zwischen 1933 und 1975 verfasste er insgesamt 33 Romane und 41 Erzählungen dieser Serie. Bevor er mit 46 Jahren seinen ersten Nero-Wolfe-Roman schrieb, war er ein erfolgreicher Geschäftsmann gewesen. Zeitlebens trat er für die Wahrung individueller Freiheitsrechte ein und machte sich insbesondere um die Urheberrechte von Schriftstellern verdient. Während des Zweiten Weltkriegs betrieb er als Vertreter verschiedener Organisationen in Radiosendungen, Zeitungsartikeln und Reden eine unerbittliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit gegen Nazi-Deutschland. Er war ein „genuin politischer Autor“, dem die Nero-Wolfe-Serie als Vehikel politischer Kommentare diente. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. Dezember 1886 – 27. Oktober 1975   •   Andere Namen رکس استوت, Ռեքս Ստաուտ, 雷克斯·史陶德
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“We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.”

Rex Stout buch The Rubber Band

Quelle: The Rubber Band

“I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.”

Rex Stout buch Might as Well Be Dead

Quelle: Might as Well Be Dead

“A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.”

Rex Stout buch The League of Frightened Men

Quelle: The League of Frightened Men

“There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When I could no longer afford that I wrote for money.”

Rex Stout, on why he turned from writing serious fiction to detective stories
The New York Times, "An Interview with Mister Rex Stout"

“My God you love to get them, and good Lord you hate to answer them.”

On letters from his readers
The New York Times, "Rex Stout, 85, Gives Clues on Good Writing"

“There isn't a generation gap between you and me — there's two.”

Rex Stout to photographer Jill Krementz
Publishers Weekly

“The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my books.”

Rex Stout, who published two titles — The Nero Wolfe Cookbook and Please Pass the Guilt — in his 86th year
Publishers Weekly

“There are various ways to call a man a liar. One way is just to scream it at him, which doesn't prove anything. Another is to establish facts by long and patient investigation. Still another way is not to call him a liar at all — let him do it himself.”

On his work on Our Secret Weapon, as quoted in "Mystery Story Writer Turns Detective, Finding Axis Lies; Rex Stout, Creator of Nero Wolfe, Using Our Secret Weapon — Truth" by Trudi McCullough in The Milwaukee Journal (30 September 1942) http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19420930&id=tO4ZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6SIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3279,6165010

“One trouble with living beyond your deserved number of years is that there's always some reason to live another year. And I'd like to live another year so that Nixon won't be President. If he's re-elected I'll have to live another four years.”

Nixon was re-elected in 1972, but Stout survived his August 1974 resignation from the Presidency by more than a year.
The New York Times, "Rex Stout, 85, Gives Clues on Good Writing"

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