Nationality American Name Darwin Teilhet | Role Novelist Awards John Newbery Medal | |
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Full Name Darwin LeOra Teilhet Born May 20, 1904 ( 1904-05-20 ) Wyanet, Illinois, United States Other names Darwin L. Teilhet, Darwin and Hildegarde Teilhet, Cyrus Fisher, William H Fielding, Theo Durant Occupation Mystery novelist, advertising executive, journalist, movie screenwriter, consultant Known for Baron von Kaz, a Viennesse detective protagonist Died April 18, 1964, Palo Alto, California, United States Spouse Hildegarde Tolman Teilhet (m. 1927) Movies The Fearmakers, They Wanted to Marry Books The Avion My Uncle Flew, The Talking Sparrow Murders Similar People Jacques Tourneur, Lew Landers, John Newbery | ||
Darwin LeOra Teilhet (May 20, 1904 – April 18, 1964) was an American mystery novelist, advertising executive, journalist and a film screenwriter and consultant.
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Teilhet was born in Wyanet, Illinois. As a teenager, he traveled in France and worked as a juggler in a circus there. He wrote a monthly column on broadcast radio for Forum magazine from 1932 to 1934 whilst he headed the broadcast radio advertisement unit of N. W. Ayer & Sonworked as an Teilhet was an officer in the Office of Strategic Services serving in the United Kingdom and the US during World War II. He became executive assistant to the president of Dole Pineapple in Hawaii.
Teilhet taught journalism classes at Stanford University, and worked as a screenwriter and consultant for various film producers.
Teilhet created his main detective protagonist, Baron von Kaz, a Viennese, at the instigation of James Poling of Doubleday Books. He wrote some of his mystery novels with his wife, Hildegarde Tolman Teilhet (November 22, 1905 – January 24, 1999). Novels were published by Darwin Teilhet, Darwin L. Teilhet, Darwin and Hildegarde Teilhet or his pseudonyms, Cyrus Fisher (juvenile fiction), William H Fielding and Theo Durant. Teilhet was a Newbery Honor award winner for his Cyrus Fisher novel, "The Avion My Uncle Flew".
Teilhet choose the pseudonym "Cyrus Fisher" as a tribute to his late father-in-law, Cyrus Fisher Tolman (1873–1942), Professor Emeritus of Economic Geology at Stanford University. There is a "Cyrus Fisher Tolman Professor in the School of Earth Sciences" professorship named in his honor, at the Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University.
Teilhet died in Palo Alto, California. He and his wife are buried together in Golden Gate National Cemetery.