Ellery Queen of the 1940s, that detective-hero was possibly the best known American fictional detective. Movies, radio shows, and television shows were based on Dannay and Lee's works. Frederic Dannay, without much involvement from Lee, was founding and directing editor of "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine", generally considered one of the most influential English-language crime fiction magazines of the last sixty-five years. They were also prominent historians in the field, editing numerous collections and anthologies of short stories such as "The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes". Their 994-page anthology for the Modern Library, "101 Years' Entertainment: The Great Detective Stories, 1841–1941", was a landmark
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