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Rex Stout

1886 - 1975

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Rex Todhunter Stout (; December 1, 1886–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, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rex Stout has received more than 513,612 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Rex Stout is the 1,374th most popular writer (down from 1,128th in 2019), the 1,681st most popular biography from United States (down from 1,375th in 2019) and the 152nd most popular American Writer.

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  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.88

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  • 2.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Rex Stout ranks 1,374 out of 7,302. Before him are Ildefonsus, Émile Gaboriau, Hartmann Schedel, Joanot Martorell, Hartmann von Aue, and Nicolás Gómez Dávila. After him are Robert Wilson, Seymour Hersh, Viktor Suvorov, Robert Browning, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, and Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Rex Stout ranks 56. Before him are Willem Drees, Tsuguharu Foujita, Giovanni Battista Caproni, Jisaburō Ozawa, Raymond A. Spruance, and Georg Stumme. After him are Raoul Hausmann, Frank Lloyd, Gyula Gömbös, Karl Korsch, Nikolay Gumilyov, and Sessue Hayakawa. Among people deceased in 1975, Rex Stout ranks 47. Before him are François Tombalbaye, Bernard Herrmann, Joseph Bech, P. G. Wodehouse, Carlo Levi, and Thornton Wilder. After him are Al Lettieri, Guy Mollet, Faisal bin Musaid Al Saud, Marguerite Perey, Luigi Dallapiccola, and Avery Brundage.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Rex Stout ranks 1,681 out of 20,380. Before him are Busta Rhymes (1972), Serena Williams (1981), Aaron Spelling (1923), Edwin G. Krebs (1918), Stephen Jay Gould (1941), and Héctor Elizondo (1936). After him are Peter Bogdanovich (1939), Robert Wilson (1941), Jerry Reed (1937), Maria Mitchell (1818), Ralph Bellamy (1904), and Seymour Hersh (1937).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Rex Stout ranks 152. Before him are Hunter S. Thompson (1937), Anthony Bourdain (1956), Maria Shriver (1955), Jean M. Auel (1936), Thornton Wilder (1897), and Diana Gabaldon (1952). After him are Robert Wilson (1941), Seymour Hersh (1937), Don DeLillo (1936), Robin Hobb (1952), Robert Bloch (1917), and Virginia Henderson (1897).

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