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Willard Huntington Wright was born to Archibald Davenport Wright and Annie Van Vranken Wright on October 15, 1887, in Charlottesville. He attended St. Vincent College, Pomona College, and Harvard University. He also studied art in Munich and Paris, an apprenticeship that led to a job as literary and art critic for the Los Angeles Times. From 1912 to 1914, he edited "The Smart Set," a New York literary magazine, and continued writing as a critic and journalist until 1923, when he became ill from overwork. His doctor confined him to bed because of a heart ailment for more than two years. In frustration, he began collecting thousands of volumes of crime and detection. In 1926, all this work paid off with the publication of his first "S.S. Van Dine" novel, "The Benson Murder Case." He went on to write 11 more, and his aristocratic amateur sleuth, Philo Vance (who shares a love of aesthetics like Wright), was so popular that Wright became wealthy for the first time in his life. He moved into a penthouse and enjoyed spending his fortune in a style similar to that of elegant Philo.

(1914) Book (w/<a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm2494267/?ref_=nmwrk">H.L. Mencken</a> and <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm2498595/?ref_=nmwrk">George Jean Nathan</a>): &quot;Europe After 8:15&quot;

(1915) Book: &quot;What Nietzsche Taught&quot;. Huebsch.

(1915) Book: &quot;Modern Painting: Its Tendence and Meaning&quot;. John Lane

(1915) Book: &quot;The Creative Will: Studies in Philosophy and the Syntax of Aesthetics&quot;. John Lane

(1915) Book: &quot;The Man of Promise&quot;. John Lane. Republished by Scribner&#39;s, 1930.

(1916) Book: &quot;The Forum Exhibition of Modern American Painters&quot;. Anderson Galleries

(1917) Book: &quot;The Great Modern French Stories: A Chronological Anthology&quot;. Boni &amp; Liveright

(1917) Book: &quot;Misinforming a Nation&quot;. Dodd, Mead

(1917) Book: &quot;Informing a Nation&quot;. Dodd, Mead

(1923) Book: &quot;The Future of Painting&quot;. Huebsch

(1917) Book: &quot;The Great Detective Stories: A Chronological Anthology&quot;. Scribner&#39;s

(1929) Book: &quot;I Used To Be a Highbrow but Look at Me Now&quot;. (as S.S. Van Dine, revealing his identity Willard Huntington Wright). Scribner&#39;s. Reprinted as the introduction to Philo Vance Murder Cases (an omnibus edition, Scribner&#39;s, 1936).

(1933) Novel: &quot;The Kennel Murder Case&quot; (filmed as <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0024210/?ref_=nmwrk">The Kennel Murder Case (1933)</a>, <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0032299/?ref_=nmwrk">Calling Philo Vance (1940)</a>).

(1927) Novel: &quot;The Canary Murder Case&quot; (filmed as <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0019745/?ref_=nmwrk">The Canary Murder Case (1929)</a>).

(7/29) Short Story: &quot;An Almost Perfect Crime&quot;.

(1926) Novel: &quot;The Benson Murder Case&quot; (filmed as <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0020679/?ref_=nmwrk">The Benson Murder Case (1930)</a>).

(11/28) Story: &quot;The Bishop Murder Case&quot; (filmed as <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0020695/?ref_=nmwrk">The Bishop Murder Case (1929)</a>).

(1928) Novel: &quot;The Greene Murder Case&quot;

(8/29) Short Story: &quot;The Inconvenient Husband&quot;.

(10/29) Short Story: &quot;The Bonmartini Murder Case&quot;.

(1929) Novel: &quot;The Scarab Murder Case&quot;

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