Edogawa Ranpo: Life and Major Works
- Life
- 1894–1965
- Born in
- Mie
- Literary schools
- Popular Fiction
- Wikipedia
- Wikipedia
Biography
Born in 1894 in Nabari, Mie Prefecture; his real name was Hirai Tarō. After graduating from the Faculty of Political Science and Economics at Waseda University, he drifted through various jobs before publishing "The Two-Sen Copper Coin" in 1923 under the pen name Edogawa Ranpo — a tribute to his beloved Edgar Allan Poe — and emerged as the pioneer of Japanese detective fiction. He created the great detective Akechi Kogorō and won a wide following with a range that spanned orthodox detective stories such as "The Psychological Test" and "The Case of the Murder on D. Slope" to works steeped in the grotesque and fantastic, such as "The Human Chair" and "The Traveler with the Pasted Rag Picture." His boys' adventure series "The Fiend with Twenty Faces" also won him nationwide popularity among young readers, while after the war he devoted himself to criticism, scholarship, and mentoring younger writers, serving as the first president of the Detective Writers Club of Japan (now the Mystery Writers of Japan) and endowing the Edogawa Rampo Prize from his own funds. He died in 1965 of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 70.
Works in the app
- The Two-Sen Copper Coin April 1923
- Ichimai no kippu July 1923
- Osoroshiki sakugo November 1923
- Sōseiji October 1924
- The Case of the Murder on D. Hill January 1925
- The Psychological Test February 1925
- Nikkichō March 1925
- Kurotegumi March 1925
- The Red Chamber April 1925
- Yūrei May 1925
- Hakuchūmu July 1925
- Yubiwa July 1925
- Muyūbyōsha no shi July 1925
- The Stalker in the Attic August 1925
- The Human Chair September 1925
- Hitori futayaku September 1925
- Giwaku September 1925
- Seppun December 1925
- Odoru issunbōshi January 1926
- Kohantei jiken January 1926
- Kasei no unga April 1926
- Osei tōjō July 1926
- Kagami jigoku October 1926
- Strange Tale of Panorama Island October 1926
- Hitodenashi no koi October 1926
- Issunbōshi December 1926
- Injū August 1928
- Kotō no oni January 1929
- The Traveler with the Pasted Rag Picture June 1929
- Mushi June 1929
- Nanimono November 1929
- Ryōki no hate January 1930
- Majutsushi June 1930
- Egawa ranko September 1930
- Ōgon kamen September 1930
- Kyūketsuki September 1930
- Mera hakase no fushigi na hanzai April 1931
- Hakuhatsuki April 1931
- Jigoku fūkei May 1931
- Kyōfuō June 1931
- Oni November 1931
- Akuryō November 1933
- Yōchū December 1933
- The Black Lizard January 1934
- Bara fujin 1936
- The Fiend with Twenty Faces January 1936
- The Boy Detectives Club January 1937
- Akuma no monshō October 1937
- Yōkai hakase January 1938
- Ankokusei January 1939
- Dai kinkai January 1939
- Shin takarajima April 1940
- Idai naru yume November 1943
- Seidō no majin January 1949
- Tōmei kaijin January 1951
- Kaiki yonjū mensō January 1952
- Uchū kaijin January 1953
- Akuryō monogatari September 1954
- Kage otoko January 1955
- Kaitei no majutsushi January 1955
- Ōgon hyō January 1956
- Tantei shōsetsu no nazo June 1956
- Sākasu no kaijin January 1957
- Tsuma ni shitsuren shita otoko October 1957
- Kimenjō no himitsu January 1958
- Akai kabutomushi April 1958
- Yubi January 1960
- Ore wa nijūmensō da April 1960
- Kaijin to shōnen tantei August 1960