question: Who had more jobs, Bruce Jay Friedman or Rex Stout?
answer: Bruce Jay Friedman
context: Title: Rex Stout
  Passage: Rex Todhunter Stout ( ; December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975) was an American writer noted for his detective fiction.  His best-known characters are the detective Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin, who were featured in 33 novels and 39 novellas between 1934 and 1975.
  Title: Rex Stout bibliography
  Passage: This is a bibliography of works by or about the American writer Rex Stout (December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975), an American writer noted for his detective fiction.  He began his literary career in the 1910s, writing more than 40 stories that appeared in pulp magazines between 1912 and 1918.  He wrote no fiction for more than a decade, until the late 1920s, when he had saved enough money through his business activities to write when and what he pleased.  In 1929, he wrote his first published book, "How Like a God", an unusual psychological story written in the second person.  He wrote a pioneering political thriller, "The President Vanishes" (1934), before he turned to writing detective fiction.  His 1934 novel "Fer-de-Lance" introduced his best-known characters, detective Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin, who were featured in 33 novels and 39 novellas and short stories between 1934 and 1975.  In 1959, Stout received the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award.  The Nero Wolfe corpus was nominated Best Mystery Series of the Century at Bouchercon XXXI, the world's largest mystery convention, and Rex Stout was nominated Best Mystery Writer of the Century.
  Title: The Father Hunt
  Passage: The Father Hunt is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout, published by the Viking Press in 1968.  "This is the first Nero Wolfe novel in nearly two years," the front flap of the dust jacket reads, "an unusual interval for the productive Rex Stout, who celebrated his eightieth birthday in December 1966."
  Title: Scuba Duba
  Passage: Scuba Duba is a 1967 comedy play from Bruce Jay Friedman which was a success off-Broadway starring Jerry Orbach, Judd Hirsch, Conrad Bain and Cleavon Little in a production that ran for 692 performances.
  Title: The Lonely Guy
  Passage: The Lonely Guy is a 1984 American romantic comedy film directed by Arthur Hiller and starring Steve Martin.  The screenplay is credited to Ed.  Weinberger and Stan Daniels (of "Taxi") as well as Neil Simon (for "adaptation"), and is based on the 1978 book "The Lonely Guy's Book of Life" by Bruce Jay Friedman.
  Title: Stir Crazy (film)
  Passage: Stir Crazy is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Sidney Poitier, produced by Hannah Weinstein and written by Bruce Jay Friedman.  The film stars Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor as down-on-their-luck friends who are given 125-year prison sentences after being framed for a bank robbery.  While in prison they befriend other prison inmates.  The film reunited Wilder and Pryor who had appeared previously in the 1976 comedy thriller film "Silver Streak".  The film was released in the United States on December 12, 1980.
  Title: Bruce Jay Friedman
  Passage: Bruce Jay Friedman is an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor.
  Title: Pola Stout
  Passage: Pola Stout (born Josefine Pola Weinbach, January 8, 1902 – October 12, 1984) was an American designer best known for creating fine woolen fabrics.  Born in Stryj, she studied with Josef Hoffmann at the Kunstgewerbe Schule in Vienna, and designed for the Wiener Werkstätte before she immigrated to the United States in 1925 with her first husband, architect and designer Wolfgang Hoffmann.  Wolfgang and Pola Hoffmann became a prominent interior design team that contributed to the development of American modernism in the early 20th century.  They dissolved their successful partnership in 1932, when she married popular mystery author Rex Stout.  Pola Stout was an influential textile designer after her second marriage.
citations: Rex Stout Bruce Jay Friedman