| DATE |
SPEAKER |
POSITION |
TITLE OF TALK |
| December 3, 1978 |
Prof. John McAleer |
Author of the Rex Stout Biography
(see the menu from the First Banquet) |
"Welcome to The Wolfe Pack" |
| December 1, 1979 |
Jamie O'Boyle |
Charter Pack member, soldier of fortune, and a man of mystery and intrigue |
"A Word from Wolfe" |
| December 4, 1980 |
Jonathan Levine |
Wine Writer, Gourmand |
"The Wines of Nero Wolfe" |
| December 5, 1981 |
Jacques Barzun |
American writer, educator, and historian |
"Rex Stout and His Two Lives" |
| December 4, 1982 |
Dr. Robin Winks |
Professor of English Yale University |
"Pricking Small Bubbles" |
| December 3, 1983 |
Hy Brown |
Radio Broadcaster: Hy Brown Nightly Mysteries |
"My Life With Nero Wolfe on Radio" |
| December 1, 1984 |
Isaac Asimov |
Author & Friend of Mr. Stout |
"Remembering Nero" |
| December, 1985 |
Tony Spicer |
NYC Private Detective |
"I Wish I Were Nero Wolfe" |
| December, 1986 |
John McAleer |
Author of the Rex Stout Biography |
"On Rex Stout" |
| The Open Book Ensemble |
New York's Oldest Professional Readers Theatre Company |
The Nero Wolfe Cantata |
| December 5, 1987 |
Margaret Goodman |
Actress and Singer |
"Nero Wolfe and the Performing Arts" |
| December, 1988 |
Gahan Wilson |
Cartoonist |
"Mr. Wolfe's Nose" |
| December, 1989 |
Fritz Sonnenschmidt |
Chef Culinary Institute of America (CIA) |
"Nero Wolfe---Nutritional Genius" |
| December, 1990 |
William DeAndrea |
Mystery Writer |
"A Debt to Nero Wolfe" |
| December 7, 1991 |
Philip Lentz |
Press Secretary to the New York Lieutenant Governor |
"Archie Goodwin--Second Banana" |
| December, 1992 |
Rebecca Stout Bradbury |
Daughter of Rex Stout |
"About Living with Nero Wolfe" |
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A Nero Wolfe Roast |
| October 23, 1993 |
Archie Goodwin |
Editor & Illustrator of Comics (e.g., Marvel Comics/Spider Man) |
"What's it Like to be Archie Goodwin" |
| December, 1994 |
Sgt. Robert Chung |
NYPD |
"A Detective In Real Life" |
| December, 1995 |
Barbara Burn |
Editor, The Nero Wolfe Cookbook |
"History of the Nero Wolfe Cookbook" |
| December, 1996 |
Douglas Braswell |
Actor |
"Being Nero Wolfe" |
| December, 1997 |
Marvin Kaye |
Actor and Writer |
"Introduction to Mystery Writing" |
| December, 1998 |
H. Paul Jeffers |
Author, Corpus, Corpus* |
"Wolfe Was Mycroft's Son" |
| December, 1999 |
Ellen Krieger |
Founder of The Wolfe Pack |
"Reflections on The Wolfe Pack" |
| December, 2000 |
Robin Winks |
Professor of English, Yale University |
"The Place of Nero Wolfe in American Mystery Fiction" |
| December, 2001 |
Michael Jaffe |
Executive Producer, The Nero Wolfe Television Series |
"Bringing Nero Wolfe to Television" |
| December 7, 2002 |
Barbara Benjamin |
Secretary to Rex Stout at the War Writers Board |
"Working for Rex Stout" |
| December 6, 2003 |
Marvin Kaye |
Actor and Writer |
"The Nero Wolfe Files" |
| December 4, 2004 |
Jane Haddam |
Mystery Writer and Wolfe Pack member |
"Killing Off People You Don't Like for Fun and Profit" |
| December 3, 2005 |
David Rosengarten |
Noted chef, TV personality, & author of It's All American Food
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"American Cuisine" |
| December 2, 2006 |
Lawrence Block |
Noted Author & First Recipient of
The Nero Award |
"Literary Awards" |
| December 8, 2007 |
Donald Westlake |
Noted Author |
State of Indie Bookstores
Keeping the Masters in Print |
| December 6, 2008 |
Frank D. Gilroy |
Pulitzer-Prize-winning author
screenwriter and director of the
1977 movie version of THE DOORBELL RANG |
The making of the Nero Wolfe movie starring Thayer David
and Tom Mason |
| December 5, 2009 |
Elaine May |
A retrospective of Nero Wolfe |
Her vision of and reflections
on Mr. Wolfe |
| December 4, 2010 |
Gahan Wilson |
Award-winning cartoonist & creator of The Wolfe Pack logo |
"Mr. Wolfe's Lips Exercise" |
| December 3, 2011 |
Linda Fairstein |
Former Manhattan DA's office prosecutor and Multi-Award Winning Author of the
Alex Cooper mystery series |
"My Non-Movie Deal" |
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