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S.S. Van Dine
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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 an important f…
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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 an important figure in avant-garde cultural circles in pre-WWI New York, and under the pseudonym (which he originally used to conceal his identity) he created the once immensely popular fictional detective Philo Vance, a sleuth and aesthete who first appeared in books in the 1920s, then in movies and on the radio. Willard Huntington Wright was born to Archibald Davenport Wright and Annie Van Vranken Wright on October 15, 1888, in Charlottesville, Virginia. His younger brother, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, became a respected painter and one of the first American abstract artists, founder of the school of modern art known as "Synchromism". Willard and Stanton were raised in Santa Monica, California, where their father owned a hotel. Willard, a largely self-taught writer, attended St. Vincent College, Pomona College, and Harvard University without graduating. In 1907, he married Katharine Belle Boynton of Seattle, Washington; they had one child, Beverley. After divorcing Katharine, whom he had abandoned early in their marriage, he married for a second time in October 1930. His second wife was Eleanor Rulapaugh, known professionally as Claire De Lisle, a portrait painter and socialite.
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2002
Vyvraždění rodiny Greenů
Movie Novel
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1947
Philo Vance Returns
Movie Characters
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1947
Philo Vance's Gamble
Movie Characters
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1940
Calling Philo Vance
Movie Novel
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1939
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Movie Story
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1937
Night of Mystery
Movie Novel
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1936
The Garden Murder Case
Movie Novel
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1935
The Casino Murder Case
Movie Novel
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1934
The Dragon Murder Case
Movie Novel
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1933
The Kennel Murder Case
Movie Writer
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1932
The Trans-Atlantic Mystery
Movie Writer
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1932
The Crane Poison Case
Movie Writer
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1932
The Campus Mystery
Movie Writer
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1932
The Side Show Mystery
Movie Writer
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1932
Murder in the Pullman
Movie Story
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1932
The Cole Case
Movie Writer
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1932
The Skull Murder Mystery
Movie Novel
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1932
The Studio Murder Mystery
Movie Writer
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1932
The Symphony Murder Mystery
Movie Characters
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1931
The Week End Mystery
Movie Writer
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1931
The Wall Street Mystery
Movie Writer
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1931
The Clyde Mystery
Movie Writer
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1930
The Benson Murder Case
Movie Novel
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1930
El Cuerpo del Delito
Movie Original Story
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1929
The Bishop Murder Case
Movie Novel
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1929
The Greene Murder Case
Movie Novel
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1929
The Canary Murder Case
Movie Novel
