Willard Huntington Wright
1888,1887
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1939
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
genre: detective fiction
country of citizenship: United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Harvard University
occupation: writer, screenwriter, novelist, journalist, literary critic, critic, art critic
S. S. Van Dine (also styled S.S. Van Dine) is the pseudonym used by American art critic Willard Huntington Wright (October 15, 1888 – April 11, 1939) when he wrote detective novels. Wright was active in avant-garde cultural circles in pre-World War I New York, and under the pseudonym (which he originally used to conceal his identity) he created the fictional detective Philo Vance, a sleuth and aesthete who first appeared in books in the 1920s, then in films and on the radio. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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