Reeder detective stories, and the Green Archer. He is remembered for the creation of King Kong, as a writer of 'the colonial imagination', for the J. More than 160 films have been made of Wallace's work. 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. He signed with Hodder and Stoughton in 1921 and became an internationally recognised author.Ī prolific writer, one of Wallace's publishers claimed that a quarter of all books then read in England were written by him. Drawing on time as a reporter in the Congo, covering the Belgian atrocities, Wallace serialised short stories in magazines, later publishing collections such as Sanders of the River (1911). 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). He joined the army at 21 and was a war correspondent during the Second Boer War for Reuters and the Daily Mail. Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 – 10 February 1932) was an English writer.īorn into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at 12.
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