Published Works Consulted

Anderson, David R. Rex Stout. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1984.

Batchelor, John, ed. The Art of Literary Biography. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995.

Baring-Gould. Nero Wolfe of West Thirty-Fifth Street: The Life and Times of America’s Largest Private Detective. New York: Viking Press, 1969.

Ferretti, Fred. “Amid the Orchids, A Feast for Nero and the Wolfe Pack.” New York Times. 9 Nov 1977: 78.

Goldsborough, Robert. “The Mastermind Who Created Nero Wolfe.” Chicago Tribune. 13 Nov 1977: F3.

Honan, Park. Author’s Lives: On Literary Biography and the Arts of Language. New York: St. Martin’s Press: 1990.

Long, Tom. "John McAleer: Wrote Novels, Column, Biography of Emerson." Boston Globe. 21 Nov 2003.

McAleer, John. Coign of Vantage: Or, The Boston Athenaeum Murders. Woodstock, Vermont: The Countryman Press, 1988.

---. Rex Stout: A Biography. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1977.

--- and Billy Dickson. Unit Pride. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co, 1981.

---. “Some Thoughts on Being a Literary Biographer.The Gazette, Journal of the Wolfe Pack. IV.2 (Spring) 1986.

"Obituary: Dr John J. McAleer, 80, BC Professor, Author." Boston Herald, 24 November 2003.

Oslin, Reid. “McAleer, Biographer of Stout and Emerson, Dies at 80.The Boston College Chronicle. 12.7 (Nov 26, 2003).

Townsend, Guy M. Rex Stout: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography. New York: Garland Publishing, 1980.

Materials Consulted at the Burns Library Archives & Manuscripts Collection

Boston College Bulletin. Chestnut Hill, MA: Office of University Publications, Boston College. XLII-XLVII.

“Judson Council Sapp Rex Stout Collection: Series 2: Subject Files.” Burns Library Archives & Manuscripts, Boston College. MS96-22: Box 33, Folders 2-4.

“Rex Stout Papers: Series 1: Correspondence: McAleer, John.” Burns Library Archives & Manuscripts, Boston College. MS86-96: Box 26 Folder 9, Box 27 Folders 1-3.

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Biography Resource Center

Contemporary Authors Online

Dictionary of National Biography

Dictionary of American Biography

Encyclopedia Britannica Online

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