Darwin Teilhet

Darwin LeOra Tielhet (May 20, 1904 – April 18, 1964) was an American mystery novelist, advertising executive, journalist and a movie screenwriter and consultant.

Tielhet was born in Wyanet, Illinois. As a teenager, he traveled in France and worked as a juggler in a circus there. Tielhet was as an intelligence officer in the United Kingdom and the US during World War II. He became executive assistant to the President of Dole Pineapple in Hawaii.

Tielhet taught journalism classes at Stanford University, and worked as a screenwriter and consultant for various film producers.

Tielhet created his main detetecitve protagonist, Baron von Kaz, a Viennesse, at the instigation of James Poling of Doubleday Books. He wrote some of his mystery novels with his wife, Hildegarde Tolman Tielhet (November 22, 1905 – January 24, 1999). Novels were published by Darwin Tielhet, Darwin L. Tielhet, Darwin and Hildegarde Tielhet or his pseudonyms, Cyrus Fisher (juvenile fiction), William H Fielding and Theo Durant. Tielhet was a Newbery Honor award winner for his Cyrus Fisher novel, "The Avion My Uncle Flew".^[1]

Tielhet 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.^[2] 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.

Tielhet died in Palo Alto, California. He and his wife are buried together in Golden Gate National Cemetery.

Novels

• Death Flies High (1931)
• Murder in the Air (1931)
• The Talking Sparrow Murders (1934)
• Bright Destination (1935)
• The Ticking Terror Murders (1935)
• The Crimson Hair Murders (1936) with Hildegarde Teilhet
• The Feather Cloak Murders (1936) with Hildegarde Teilhet
• Journey to the West (1938)
• The Broken Face Murders (1940) with Hildegarde Teilhet
• Trouble Is My Master (1942)
• Retreat From the Dolphin (1943)
• Odd Man Pays (1944)
• My True Love (1945)
• The Fear Makers (1945)
• The Avion My Uncle Flew (1946) as Cyrus Fisher
• Something Wonderful to Happen (1947)
• Ab Carmody's Treasure (1948) as Cyrus Fisher
• The Happy Island (1950)
• The Mission of Jeffery Tolamy (1951)
• The Unpossessed (1951) as William H Fielding
• Steamboat on the River (1952)
• Take Me As I Am (1952) as William H Fielding
• Beautiful Humbug (1954) as William H Fielding
• The Lion's Skin (1955)
• The Road to Glory (1956)
• The Big Runaround (1964) aka Dangerous Encounter

Selected filmography (writer)

• They Wanted to Marry (1937), from a short story
• No Room for the Groom (1952), from his novel, "My True Love"
• The Fearmakers (1958), from his novel, "The Fear Makers"

References

1. ^ "Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922-Present". American Library Association. http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberyhonors/newberymedal.cfm. Retrieved 2011-04-22. 
2. ^ http://histsoc.stanford.edu/pdfmem/TolmanC.pdf

• IMDb page
• LibraryThing page
• US 1st Editions page

External links

• Darwin Teilhet at Find a Grave

Persondata
Name	Teilhet, Darwin LeOra
Alternative names	Fisher, Cyrus ; Fielding, William H.; Durant, Theo
Short description	American writer
Date of birth	May 20, 1904
Place of birth	Wyanet, Illinois
Date of death	April 18, 1964
Place of death	Palo Alto, California