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Darwin LeOra Teilhet was an American mystery novelist, advertising executive, journalist and a movie screenwriter and consultant.
Teilhet was born in Wyanet, Illinois. As a teenager, he traveled in France and worked as a juggler in a circus there. Teilhet 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.
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 Viennesse, at the instigation of James Poling of Doubleday Books. He wrote some of his mystery novels with his wife, Hildegarde Tolman Tielhet. Novels were published by Darwin Tielhet, Darwin L. Teilhet, Darwin and Hildegarde Teilhet or his pseudonyms, Cyrus Fisher, 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, 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.
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