John Dickson Carr
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American writer (1906–1977)
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Within Vinony's link graph, John Dickson Carr is referenced by 378 other articles, and connects out to Arthur Conan Doyle, detective fiction and crime fiction.
Vinony files it under 1906 births, 1977 deaths and 20th-century American male writers.
Its subject is documented across 31 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1906-11-30 ) November 30, 1906, Uniontown, Pennsylvania , United States
- Died
- February 28, 1977 (1977-02-28) (aged 70), Greenville, South Carolina , United States
- Resting place
- Springwood Cemetery , Greenville
- Occupation
- Novelist
- Alma mater
- Haverford College
- Genre
- Detective novel , murder mystery
- Literary movement
- Golden Age of Detective Fiction
- Notable works
- The Hollow Man , The Burning Court
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Carr
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Uniontown
- Place of death
- Greenville
- Occupation
- journalist
- Languages spoken
- English language
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- cause of death
- lung cancer
- date of birth
- 1906-11-30
- date of death
- 1977-02-27
- manner of death
- natural causes
- influenced by
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- different from
- Orson Scott Card
- name in native language
- John Dickson Carr
- Commons category
- John Dickson Carr
- Commons Creator page
- John Dickson Carr
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Works in European collections
1 object attributed to John Dickson Carr, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
John Dickson Carr (November 30, 1906 – February 27, 1977) was an American author of detective stories, who also published using the pseudonyms Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson, and Roger Fairbairn.
He lived in England for a number of years, and is often grouped among "British-style" mystery writers. Most (though not all) of his novels had English settings, especially country villages and estates, and English characters. His two best-known fictional detectives, Gideon Fell and Sir Henry Merrivale, were both English. Gideon Fell first appeared in the novel Hag's Nook (1933), and Sir Henry Merrivale first appeared in the novel The Plague Court Murders (1934).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “John Dickson Carr” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.