Ellery Queen Dannay and Lee also commissioned other authors to write crime thrillers under the Ellery Queen authorial name, but not featuring Ellery Queen as a character. Daniel Nathan, professionally known as Frederic Dannay (October 20, 1905 – September 3, 1982), and Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky, professionally known as Manfred Bennington Lee (January 11, 1905 – April 3, 1971), were American cousins from Brooklyn, New York. In addition to writing most of the novels and short stories starring the brilliant amateur detective Ellery Queen, Dannay and Lee edited more than thirty popular anthologies of crime fiction and true crime, which were also published
David Wong (writer) David Wong (writer) Jason Pargin (born January 10, 1975), known by his pen name David Wong, is an American humor writer. He is the executive editor of humor website Cracked.com, a recurring guest in the Cracked Podcast and has written four novels, "John Dies at the End" (2007), "This Book Is Full of Spiders" (2012), "Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits" (2015), and "What the Hell Did I Just Read" (2017). "John Dies at the End" was adapted into a film of the same name in 2012. Wong was born in Lawrenceville, Illinois. He and fellow Internet writer John Cheese (real