People from Danbury, Connecticut: Charles Ives, Rex Stout, Rose Wilder Lane, Laura Nyro, Michael Whelan, Jonathan Brandis, Ken Green

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Charles Ives, Rex Stout, Rose Wilder Lane, Laura Nyro, Michael Whelan, Jonathan Brandis, Ken Green, Chet Powers, Neil Leon Rudenstine, Jerry Nadeau, Merle Miller, Julius Baker, Nancy McKenzie, Ian K. Smith, George de Forest Brush, Robert Joseph Shaheen, Royce D. Applegate, Philip De Witt Ginder, Shap Smith, William R. Ratchford, Hilton Jefferson, Thomas T. Whittlesey, Joe Lahoud, Edward H. Allen, Zalmon Wildman, Frank Conniff, John Hubbard Tweedy, Samuel Tweedy. Excerpt: Rex Todhunter Stout (December 1, 1886 - October 27, 1975) was an American writer noted for his detective fiction. 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). 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. 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. 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. He was the state spelling bee champion at age 13. Stout attended Topeka High School, Kansas, and the University of Kansas, Lawrence. His sister, Ruth Stout, also authored several books on no-work gardening and some social commentaries. He served from 1906 to 1908 in the U.S. 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 ci...