S. S. Van Dine
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Birth Date 15 October 1888
Death Date 11 April 1939
Personal Name S. S. Van Dine
Alternate Names
- Dine Van
- S.S.Van Dine
- S. S. van Dine
- S.S. Van Dine
- Willard Huntington Wright
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S. S. Van Dine (also styled 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-World War I New York, and under the pseudonym (which he originally used to conceal his identity) he created the 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.