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Edgar Wallace
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was a British writer of crime and adventure fiction.
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culture · British writer (1875–1932) · journalist · playwright · screenwriter · poet · novelist · writer · science fiction writer · film director · director · also Edgar Wallace, Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace, Wallace
Born 1 April 1875 · Died 10 February 1932 · Q271824
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2026· 1 entry
2023· 1 entry
The original Wallace screenplay was published in KONG: An Original Screenplay by Edgar Wallace edited by Stephen Jones
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2016· 1 entry
Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,729 times.
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2007· 2 entries
Kalkofe produced a sequel Neues vom Wixxer
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Published “Clustal W and Clustal X version 2.0” in Bioinformatics — cited 25,004 times.
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2005· 2 entries
By the Modern Library, a division of Random House, with an introduction by Greg Bear and a preface by Mark Cotta Vaz, and by Penguin in the US
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Blackstone Audio released a spoken-word version of the book as an audiobook on CD with commentary by Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison, and Ray Harryhausen, among others
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2004· 1 entry
Oliver Kalkofe produced the movie Der Wixxer, an homage to the popular black and white Wallace movies
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1997· 1 entry
Describes him as "one of the most prolific thriller writers of [the 20th] century"
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1976· 1 entry
Grosset and Dunlap republished the novel in paperback and hardcover editions
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1969· 1 entry
By his daughter, Penelope Wallace
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1965· 1 entry
In the US and by Corgi in 1966 in the UK
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1963· 1 entry
Called The Edgar Wallace Story, which featured his son Bryan Edgar Wallace
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1960· 1 entry
By the London County Council at 6 Tressillian Crescent in Lewisham, London, England where he once lived
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1959· 1 entry
Danish production company Rialto Film on behalf of West German distributor Constantin Film made "The Fellowship of the Frog" into a movie
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1938· 1 entry
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Magazine was a monthly digest-size fiction magazine specializing in crime and detective fiction
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1935· 3 entries
It was adapted into a film of the same name, starring Paul Robeson
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Found it to be "mediocre, contemptible and crude
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The People of the River (1911) - short stories published in The Weekly Tale-Teller
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1934· 1 entry
Bryan married Margaret Lane (1907–94), also a writer
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1932· 1 entry
Died 1932-02-10.
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1928· 1 entry
It was estimated that one in four books being read in the UK had come from Wallace's pen
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1926· 1 entry
Entitled "The Canker In Our Midst" about paedophilia and the show business world
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1924· 1 entry
But reprinted as late as 2011, is a short story about an Earth scientist who communicates via wireless with his counterpart on a duplicate Earth orbiting unseen because it is on the opposite side of the Sun
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1923· 1 entry
And though the tumour was successfully removed, it returned terminally by 1925, and she died in 1926
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1921· 2 entries
And became an internationally recognised author
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Organising his contracts, instead of selling rights to his work piecemeal in order to raise funds
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1916· 1 entry
Ivy had her third and last child by Edgar, Michael Blair Wallace, and filed for divorce in 1918
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1907· 1 entry
The first reporter ever to be fired from the paper, and he found no other paper would employ him, given his reputation
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1904· 1 entry
Followed by a daughter, Patricia, in 1908
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1903· 2 entries
And the couple returned to London soon afterwards, deeply in debt
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Wallace met his birth mother Polly, whom he had never known
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1901· 1 entry
While in South Africa, Wallace married Ivy Maude Caldecott (1879–1926), even though her father Reverend William Shaw Caldecott, a Wesleyan missionary, was strongly opposed to the marriage
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1899· 1 entry
Bought his way out of the forces and turned to writing full time
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1894· 1 entry
Became engaged to a local Deptford girl, Edith Anstree, but broke the engagement and enlisted in the infantry
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1875· 1 entry
Born 1875-04-01.
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1872· 1 entry
Met and joined the Marriott family theatre troupe, managed by Alice Marriott, her husband Richard Edgar, and her three adult children (from earlier liaisons), Grace, Adeline and Richard Horatio Marriott Edgar
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