The History of Terrorism
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Mystery and detective fiction awards
Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award
Rex Stout
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Rex Stout
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1775-Today United States Navy
1789-Today United States Department of the Treasury (USDT)
1920-Today American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
American detective writers
American radio personalities
Authors and writers
Edgar Award
Howard Lindsay
Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award
Presidents of The Authors Guild
Presidents of the Mystery Writers of America
Propagandists
Propagandists who happen to be World Federalists
Russel Crouse
World Federalists
Children
1926-1988 Vanguard Press
1934-1975 Nero Wolfe (fictional character)
1941-? Writers' War Board
1942 On January 6, 1942, Stout met with Crouse, Pearl S. Buck, Clifton Fadiman, Oscar Hammerstein II and John P. Marquand, and the Writers' War Committee was formed. The organization soon grew beyond its modest founding mission and it was renamed...
1944-1948 Society for the Prevention of World War III
House Committee on Un-American Activities chairman Martin Dies called him a Communist, and Stout is reputed to have said to him, "I hate Communists as much as you do, Martin, but there's one difference between us. I know what a Communist is and you don't."
Stout was one of many American writers closely watched by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. Hoover considered him an enemy of the bureau and either a Communist or a tool of Communist-dominated groups.
Stout's leadership of the Authors League of America during the McCarthy era was particularly irksome to the FBI. About a third of Stout's FBI file is devoted to his 1965 novel The Doorbell Rang.
The Organization was a spin-off of the Writers' War Board, with both headed by (anti-German) novelist Rex Stout and the organization's monthly publication mainly republishing material produced by the War Board.