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Frederick van Rensselaer Dey (February 10, 1861 – April 25, 1922) was an American dime novelist and pulp fiction writer. ==Biography== He was born on February 10, 1861 in Watkins Glen, New York to David Peter Dey and Emma Brewster Sayre. He attended the Havana Academy, and later graduated from the Columbia Law School. He practiced law and was a junior partner of William J. Gaynor. Dey took up writing while recovering from an illness. His first full length story was written for Beadle and Adams in 1881. Dey married Annie Shepard Wheeler, of Providence, Rhode Island on June 4, 1885 and they had two children. After a divorce he married Haryot Holt (c1870-1950) on April 1, 1898.〔 In 1891, Street & Smith hired him to continue the series begun by John R. Coryell, on the adventures of Nick Carter.〔(Frederick van Rensselaer Dey Biography )〕 Most of his Nick Carter stories appeared under the pseudonyms "A Celebrated Author" and "The Author of 'Nick Carter'".〔Cox, J. Randolph. ''The Dime Novel Companion: A Source Book.'' Westport: Greenwood Press, 2000. Print. 82-83.〕 He wrote over a thousand Nick Carter novelettes, comprising over forty million words, all written longhand.〔Bradley, Marion Zimmer, "Speaking of Hacks", ''Astra's Tower'' #4, May 1950.〕 Dey also worked as a newspaper reporter.〔Dey, Frederick Van Rensselaer. "How I Wrote a Thousand 'Nick Carter' Novels." ''The American Magazine'' Feb 1920: 19, 159-163. Print.〕 Writing as "Varick Vanardy", he created the "The Night Wind", who appeared in stories from 1913 to the early 1920s. Collected into 4 books, these have been recently reprinted by Wildside Press: ''Alias, The Night Wind'' (1913), ''Return of the Night Wind'', ''The Night Wind's Promise'', ''The Lady of the Night Wind'' (1918).〔(Wildside Press Varnady Listings )〕 Dey shot himself in his room in the Hotel Broztell in New York City, during the night of April 25, 1922 or the morning of April 26, 1922. The body was found either by Charles E. MacLean, the managing editor for Street & Smith,〔 or by Deputy Police Commissioner Joseph Faurot.〔Van Raalte, Joseph. "Nick Carter: The Picturesque Career of the Man Who Made Him." ''Century: A Popular Quarterly'' 114 (Nov 1927): 91-97. Print.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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