Hugh Wiley

Born in Zanesville, Ohio, on February 26, 1884, Hugh Wiley was an American writer whose fiction appeared in widely read magazines and in book form. Records from library and film-reference sources also identify him as the author of novels including The Wildcat and The Prowler.

He is most closely associated with James Lee Wong, usually known as Mr. Wong, a detective character who appeared in a long run of magazine stories. That character later moved to the screen in a series of films, which helped keep Wiley's name alive for later mystery readers and movie fans.

Wiley died in Berkeley, California, on December 30, 1968. Today he is remembered chiefly for his pulp and mystery fiction and for creating one of the more durable detective characters to emerge from American magazine storytelling of the early twentieth century.