Wallace, Irving, 1916-1990
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וולס, אירוינג, 1916-1990
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Уоллес, Ирвинг, 1916-1990
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Uolles, Irvin, 1916-1990
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וואלאס, אירוינג, 1916־
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Wāls, Ayrfinǧ, 1916-1990
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Уоллес, Ирвин 1916-1990
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American author, journalist, and screenwriter.
Irving Wallace was born in 1916 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He sold his first magazine story when he was 15. After dropping out of college to write for film, he met his wife Sylvia Kahn. In 1942, Wallace enlisted in the Air Force, where he was placed in the First Motion Picture Division. A year later, he was transferred to the Signal Corps Photographic Center, which stationed him first in Los Angeles and later in New York. Upon his discharge from the Air Force in 1946, he returned to free-lancing for periodicals but also started writing screenplays and treatments for movie studios. In 1953, he began writing book-length works. His first published work was The Fabulous Originals. Over the course of his career, he would go on to write sixteen novels and seventeen works of nonfiction, many of which became sensational best-sellers. Wallace died in 1990.
American author.
Irving Wallace (1916-1990) was born in Chicago, Illinois, raised in Kenosha, Wisconsin and attended Williams Institute in Berkeley, California and went to Los Angeles City College. Wallace wrote for numerous magazines with his work appearing in The Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, Reader's Digest, Saturday Review, American Mercury, Liberty, Collier's Coronet. One of the most popular authors in America, Wallace has written more than 15 books, both fiction and non-fiction and numerous screenplays. Among Wallace's best known novels are "The Chapman Report," "The Prize," "The Man," "The Plot," "The Twenty-Seventh Wife", "The Three Sirens," and "The Word."
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Irving Wallace was born in 1916 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He sold his first magazine story when he was 15. After dropping out of college to write for film, he met his wife Sylvia Kahn. In 1942, Wallace enlisted in the Air Force, where he was placed in the First Motion Picture Division. A year later, he was transferred to the Signal Corps Photographic Center, which stationed him first in Los Angeles and later in New York. Upon his discharge from the Air Force in 1946, he returned to free-lancing for periodicals but also started writing screenplays and treatments for movie studios. In 1953, he began writing book-length works. His first published work was The Fabulous Originals . Over the course of his career, he would go on to write sixteen novels and seventeen works of nonfiction, many of which became sensational best-sellers. Wallace died in 1990.
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