S. S. Van Dine, American author and critic (died 1939)

S. S. Van Dine

American journalist and author (1888–1939)

S. S. Van Dine is the pen name used by American art critic Willard Huntington Wright when he wrote detective novels. Wright was active in avant-garde cultural circles in pre-World War I New York, and under the pen name he created the fictional detective Philo Vance, a sleuth and…