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Edgar Wallace Biography
Edgar Wallace is one of the famous Novelist, who was born on the memorable day of April 1 in the year 1875. Hailing from the vibrant city of England, Edgar Wallace is a proud citizen of United Kingdom.
English multi-genre writer who is most famous for King Kong and the J. G. Reeder detective series. He wrote 175 novels and 24 plays, as well as several screenplays, non-fiction works, and poetry and short story collections.
Over the years, not only have skills been honed, but a significant impact has also been made in the professional field. Whether it's through work, public appearances, or contributions to the community, Edgar Wallace continues to be an inspiration for many.
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First Name
Edgar
Last Name
Wallace
Death Date
1932-02-10
Death Day
February 10
Death Year
1932
Cause of Death
Natural Causes
Manner of Death
Pneumonia
Place of Death
Beverly Hills, CA
Family
He was born in England to impoverished actor parents and was adopted at the age of three by Clara and George Freeman. Wallace later had several children with his first wife, Ivy Maude Caldecott. Following his 1918 divorce, he was remarried to author Marga
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He met and became friends with author and poet Rudyard Kipling.
Career
He worked as a war correspondent before becoming a crime writer. He published his first work, a collection of ballads, in 1898.
Her husband, Captain Joseph Richards, was born in 1838; he was from an Irish family.
1847
Wallace was born at 7 Ashburnham Grove, Greenwich, to actors Richard Horatio Marriott Edgar (1847–1894) and Mary Jane "Polly" Richards, née Blair (born 1843).
1867
Wallace's mother's family had been in show business, and she worked in the theatre as a stagehand, usherette, and bit-part actress until she married in 1867.
1868
Joseph died at sea in 1868, leaving his pregnant wife destitute. After the birth of Wallace's older sibling, his mother returned to the stage, assuming the stage name "Polly" Richards.
1872
In 1872, she 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.
1878
By 1878, his mother could no longer afford the small sum she had been paying the Freemans to care for her son and, instead of placing the boy in the workhouse, the Freemans adopted him.
1894
In 1894, he became engaged to a local Deptford girl, Edith Anstree, but broke the engagement and enlisted in the infantry.
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1896
He was posted to South Africa with the West Kent Regiment, in 1896.
1898
Wallace began publishing songs and poetry, much inspired by Rudyard Kipling, whom he met in Cape Town in 1898.
1899
In 1899, he bought his way out of the forces and turned to writing full time.
1900
Remaining in Africa, he became a war correspondent, first for Reuters and then the Daily Mail (1900) and other periodicals during the Boer War.
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1901
In 1901, while in South Africa, Wallace married Ivy Maude Caldecott (1880?–1926), although her father Reverend William Shaw Caldecott, a Wesleyan missionary, was strongly opposed to the marriage.
1903
The couple's first child, Eleanor Clare Hellier Wallace, died suddenly from meningitis in 1903, and the couple returned to London soon afterwards, deeply in debt.
1904
A son, Bryan Edgar Wallace, was born in 1904 followed by a daughter, Patricia, in 1908.
1905
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).
1907
Wallace was fired in 1907, the first reporter ever to be fired from the paper, and he found no other paper would employ him, given his reputation.
1908
The period from 1908 to 1932 was the most prolific of Wallace's life.
1911
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).
1916
During 1916, Ivy had her third and last child by Edgar, Michael Blair Wallace, and filed for divorce in 1918.
1921
He signed with Hodder and Stoughton in 1921 and became an internationally recognised author.
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1923
On 6 June 1923, Edgar Wallace became the first British radio sports reporter, when he made a report on The Derby for the British Broadcasting Company, the newly founded predecessor of the BBC.
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1924
Planetoid 127, first published in 1924 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.
1925
Wallace's other science fiction works include The Green Rust, a story of bio-terrorists who threaten to release an agent that will destroy the world's corn crops, 1925, which accurately predicted that a short peace would be followed by a German attack on England, and The Black Grippe, about a disease that renders everyone in the world blind.
1926
Wallace wrote a controversial article in the Daily Mail in 1926 entitled "The Canker In Our Midst" about paedophilia and the show business world.
1927
Kong was rejected as the film's title because it was too similar to another Cooper film, Chang, released in 1927, and because it sounded Chinese.
1928
In 1928, it was estimated that one in four books being read in the UK had come from Wallace's pen.
1929
As well as journalism, Wallace wrote screen plays, poetry, historical non-fiction, 18 stage plays, 957 short stories and over 170 novels, 12 in 1929 alone.
1931
After an unsuccessful bid to stand as Liberal MP for Blackpool (as one of David Lloyd George's Independent Liberals) in the 1931 general election, Wallace moved to Hollywood, where he worked as a script writer for RKO.
1932
Around the same time, he wrote the screenplay for the first sound film adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles (1932), produced in England by Gainsborough Pictures.
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1933
He died suddenly from undiagnosed diabetes, during the initial drafting of King Kong (1933).
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1934
In 1934, Bryan married Margaret Lane (1907–94), also a writer.
1935
Trotsky, reading a Wallace novel whilst recuperating on his sickbed in 1935, found it to be "mediocre, contemptible and crude ... [with no] shade of perception, talent or imagination." Critics Steinbrunner and Penzler stated that Wallace's writing is "slapdash and cliché-ridden, [with] characterization that is two dimensional and situations [that] are frequently trite, relying on intuition, coincidence, and much pointless, confusing movement to convey a sense of action.
1938
Lane's biography of Edgar Wallace was published in 1938.
1955
Penelope married George Halcrow in 1955.
1959
In 1959 Danish production company Rialto Film on behalf of West German distributor Constantin Film made "The Fellowship of the Frog" into a movie.
1963
A 50-minute German TV documentary was made in 1963 called The Edgar Wallace Story, which featured his son Bryan Edgar Wallace.
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1964
It published 35 issues from 1964 to 1967.
1965
The first paperback edition had been published by Bantam in 1965 in the US and by Corgi in 1966 in the UK.
1969
The couple ran the Wallace estate, managing her father's literary legacy and starting the Edgar Wallace Society in 1969.
1972
The initial success prompted Rialto Film to establish a German subsidiary, securing the rights to most of Wallace's novels, and producing an additional 38 movies until 1972.
1976
That original screenplay is analysed and discussed in The Girl in the Hairy Paw (1976), edited by Ronald Gottesman and Harry Geduld, and by Mark Cotta Vaz, in the preface to the Modern Library reissue of King Kong (2005).
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1987
Critic David Pringle noted in 1987: "The Sanders Books are not frequently reprinted nowadays, perhaps because of their overt racism".
1997
He sold over 50 million copies of his combined works in various editions and The Economist in 1997 describes him as "one of the most prolific thriller writers of [the 20th] century", although the great majority of his books are out of print in the UK, but are still read in Germany.
2004
In 2004, Oliver Kalkofe produced the movie Der Wixxer, an homage to the popular black and white Wallace movies.
2005
The book was reissued in 2005 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.
2007
In 2007, Kalkofe produced a sequel Neues vom Wixxer.
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2013
The original Wallace screenplay was published in the 2013 book Ray Harryhausen – The Master of the Majicks, Volume 1: Beginnings and Endings by Mike Hankin.
