Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey

Frederick van Rensselaer Dey (February 10, 1861 – April 25, 1922) was an American dime novelist and pulp fiction writer.

He was born on February 10, 1861, in Watkins Glen, New York, to David Peter Dey and Emma Brewster Sayre.

Dey married Annie Shepard Wheeler, of Providence, Rhode Island, on June 4, 1885, and they had two children, Harriet and Kinsley.

[3] He wrote over a thousand Nick Carter novelettes, comprising over forty million words, all written longhand.

[7] The body was found either by Charles E. MacLean, the managing editor for Street & Smith,[1] or by Deputy Police Commissioner Joseph Faurot.

Written by "Varick Vanardy", Dey's novel Odds and the Man was serialized in The Argosy in 1918
Lobby card for Alias the Night Wind (1923), based on Dey's 1913 novel serialized in Cavalier