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Wallace registered in the British Army under the name Edgar Wallace, after the author of Ben-Hur, Lew Wallace. [6] [7] [10] At the time the medical records register him as having a 33-inch chest and being stunted from his childhood spent in the slums. [10]
Apr 15, 2024 · Edgar Wallace was a British novelist, playwright, and journalist who was an enormously popular writer of detective and suspense stories. Wallace was the illegitimate son of an actress and was adopted as an infant by a Billingsgate fish porter named George Freeman.
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It was the name Edgar Wallace that sold the books, not a particular title or character, and once the real Edgar Wallace was gone, his readers moved on and his works fell out of print. But beginning in the late 1950s, Wallace’s name enjoyed a posthumous renaissance in Germany, where film adaptations of his thrillers became a cottage industry.
Wallace was named to the staff of the London Daily Mail and covered the end of the war in South Africa. He married a minister’s daughter, Ivy Caldecott, in April, 1901, in Cape Town and at the ...
He soon found out that soldiering was not for him and was soon back in London, where he got a job as a crime reporter for the newly established Daily Mail. It was as a reporter that he shortened his name to “Edgar Wallace”, a last name that he took from the author of “Ben Hur”, General Lew Wallace.
He was known for the J. G. Reeder detective stories, The Four Just Men, the Ringer, and for creating the Green Archer character during his lifetime. Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was a prolific British crime writer, journalist and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and countless articles in newspapers and journals.
Robert George Curtis was the private secretary to British crime writer Edgar Wallace. Curtis and Wallace met for the first time in 1913, before parting following the outbreak of World War One, as Curtis had to do his military service. In 1916, he was discharged from the service after contracting malaria.
