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Edgar Wallace
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British crime writer, journalist and playwright (1875–1932)
Edgar Wallace was a prolific British writer, journalist, and playwright from 1875 to 1932 who became famous for creating crime and detective stories. His work was enormously popular during his lifetime and helped establish many conventions of the modern crime fiction genre that readers still enjoy today.
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Edgar Wallace was an English writer, journalist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director. He was one of the most successful English-language crime writers and is considered the inventor of the modern thriller, of which he was the leading exponent in the early 20th century.
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- human
- Given name
- Richard
- Family name
- Wallace
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Greenwich
- Place of death
- Beverly Hills
- Occupation
- film director
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- thriller
- Official website
- edgarwallace.org
- Image
- EW Plaque.jpg
- Number of children
- 3
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- Edgar Wallace
- date of birth
- 1875-04-01
- date of death
- 1932-02-10
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- Category:Edgar Wallace
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- natural causes
- ethnic group
- English people
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- writing language
- English language
- birth name
- Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace
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Encyclopedic overview
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 – 10 February 1932) was a British writer of crime and adventure fiction.
Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at the age of 12. He joined the army at age 21 and was a war correspondent during the Second Boer War for Reuters and the Daily Mail. Struggling with debt, he left South Africa, returned to London and began writing thrillers to raise income, publishing books including The Four Just Men (1905). Drawing on his time as a reporter in the Congo, covering the Belgian atrocities, Wallace serialised short stories in magazines such as The Windsor Magazine and later published collections such as Sanders of the River (1911). He signed with Hodder & Stoughton in 1921 and became an internationally recognised author.
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