Irving Wallace
Novelist, Author
1916 – 1990
Who was Irving Wallace?
Irving Wallace was an American best-selling author and screenwriter. Wallace was known for his heavily researched novels, many with a sexual theme. One critic described him "as the most successful of all the many exponents of junk fiction perhaps because he took it all so seriously, not to say lugubriously". Wallace was a blue-collar writer who wrote for a blue-collar audience. Most critics were scornful of his novels' flat prose and pedestrian characters.
Wallace's name is not to be found in directories of writers but he possessed the skill to entertain millions and he was seldom pretentious about it.
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- Born
- Mar 19, 1916
Chicago - Parents
- Spouses
- Sylvia Wallace
(1941 - 1990/06/29)
- Sylvia Wallace
- Children
- Religion
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Jun 29, 1990
Los Angeles
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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