Manfred Bennington Lee, American Crime Writer(1905-1971)

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Just the Facts:

• Name: Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky
• Known as: Manfred Bennington Lee
• Birth: January 11, 1905, Brooklyn, New York, USA
• Death: April 3, 1971, Roxbury, Connecticut, USA
• Language: English
• Who he was: American author of crime stories; half of a pair of cousins who together created the fictional character and equally-fictional writer "Ellery Queen." (His cousin's name was Daniel Nathan, pen named Frederic Dannay)

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