This is a photograph of Rex Todhunter Stout who grew up in Topeka, Kansas and attended Topeka High School and the University of Kansas. He is a well known American writer noted for his detective fiction and his larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe. The photograph was copied from the Topeka Daily Capital, January 13, 1907, page 6 and the caption reads Rex Stout, a Yoeman in the Navy.
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