Career
Office boy, store clerk, bookkeeper, sailor, hotel manager, inventor school thrift system, 1916-1927. Enlisted United States Navy, 1906, purchased discharge, 1908. Master ceremonies, Speaking of Liberty radio program Council for Democracy, 1941.
Voice of Freedom radio program Council for Democracy, 1941. Voice of Freedom radio program Freedom House, 1942. Our Secret Weapon radio prograprogram, 1942-1943.
Chairman, Writers’s War Board, 1941-1946. President Friends Democracy, 1941-1951. President Author’s Guild, 1943-1945.
President Society Prevention World War III, 1943-1946. Chairman Writer’s Board World Government, since 1949. President Author’s League American, 1951-1955, 62-69, vice president, 1956-1961.
President Mystery Writers American, since 1958. Treasurer Freedom House, since 1957. Author: How Like a God, 1929.
Seed on the Wind, 1930. Golden Remedy, 1931; Forest Fire, 1933. Fer-de-Lance, 1934; The President Vanishes, 1934.
The League of Frightened Men, 1935. O Carless Love, 1935. The Rubber Band, 1936.
The Red Box, 1936; The Hand in the Glove, 1937. Too Many Cooks, 1938. Mr. Cinderella, 1938.
Some Buried Caesar, 1939. Mountain Cat, 1939; Over My Dead Body, 1939. Red Threads, 1940; Double for Death, 1940.
Bad for Business, 1940. Where There’s a Will, 1941. The Broken Vase, 1941.
Alphabet Hicks, 1942. Black Orchids, 1942; The Illustrious Dunderheads, 1942. Not Quite Dead Enough, 1944.
The Silent Speaker, 1946. Too Many Women, 1947. Ouble in Triplicate, 1949.
The Second Confession, 1949. Three Doors to Death, 1950. In the Best Families, 1950.
Curtains for Three, 1951. Murder by the Book, 1951. Triple Jeopardy, 1952.
Prisoner’s Base, 1952. The Golden Spiders, 1953. Three Men Out, 1954; The Black Mountain, 1954.
Before Midnight, 1955. Three Witnesses, 1956. Might as Well Be Dead, 1956.
Three for the Chair, 1957. If Death Ever Slept, 1957. And Four to Go, 1958.
Champagne for One, 1958. Plot It Yourself, 1959. Three at Wolfe’s Door, 1960.
Too Many Clients, 1960. The Final Deduction, 1961. Homicide Trinity, 1962.
Gambit, 1962; The Mother Hunt, 1963. Trio for Blunt Instruments, 1964. A Right to Die, 1964.
The Doorbell Rang, 1965. Death of a Doxy, 1966. The Father Hunt, 1968.
Death of a Dude, 1969. Nero Wolfe Cookbook, 1973. Please Pass the Guilt, 1973.
A Family Affair, 1975. Home: Brewster, New York.