Susan Wallace
Writer, Author
1830 – 1907
Who was Susan Wallace?
Susan Arnold Elston Wallace was an American author and poet from Crawfordsville, Indiana. In addition to writing travel articles for several American magazines and newspapers, Susan published six books, five of which contain collected essays from her travels in the New Mexico Territory, Europe, and the Middle East in the 1880s: The Land of the Pueblos, The Storied Sea, The Repose in Egypt: A Medley, Along the Bosphorus, and Other Sketches, and The City of the King: What the Child Jesus Saw and Heard. She was also the wife of Lew Wallace, a lawyer, American Civil War general, politician, and diplomat. Susan completed the manuscript of Lew Wallace's two-volume autobiography following his death in 1905, with the assistance of Mary Hannah Krout, another Crawfordsville author. Susan died in Crawfordsville in 1907.
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- Born
- Dec 25, 1830
Crawfordsville - Also known as
- Susan E Wallace
- Spouses
- Lew Wallace
(1852/05/06 - 1905/02/15)
- Lew Wallace
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Indiana
- Died
- Oct 1, 1907
Crawfordsville
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on July 23, 2013
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