Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine selling more than 90,000 copies, which is far beyond Dannay and the publisher’s expectation. Since then, "EQMM" has become the Amwtican leading magazine of the genre and is credited with setting the standard for the modern crime and mystery short stories and keeping short stories of the genre alive and flourish. Frederic Dannay served as editor-in-chief for EQMM for more than 40 years. As an editor, Dannay set his goal to establish a more respectful reputation for mysteries and keep the genre strong. Dannay explained his manifesto for "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine" as being to "raise the sights of mystery
Frederic Will Renaissance, under HRC Director, Harry Ransom. "Contemporary American Thought; Twentieth Century Literary Criticism; Politica Economia Cultura" (Santiago de Chile); "Contemporary Authors 1"; "Margins"; "International Who's Who in Poetry". Essay studies of his work in Frank Shynnagh (pseudonym), "Opus," "Iowa Review" (1992); Albert Cook, "On Frederic Will," "Iowa Review" (1992); book length study, Frank Shynnagh (pseudonym), "Song Broken, Song: The Work of Frederic Will" (Mellen, 2008). Frederic Will Frederic Will is a Midwestern American writer. Will has been active in many genres: poetry, fiction, cultural history, philosophy, translation, travel memoir. The American poet/novelist/critic/translator Frederic Will was born in New Haven, Connecticut