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, May 4, 1913, page 16 and the caption reads "Rex T. Stout, who sold fourteen stories during the first year in New York."
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