Irving Wallace

Irving Wallace (born March 19, 1916 in Chicago , Illinois , † June 29, 1990 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American bestselling and screenwriter . His works are known for their wealth of ideas and careful research.

Life

Wallace was born to the Wallechinsky, a Jewish couple who immigrated from Russia. He was the father of Olympia - historian David Wallechinsky .

Several of his books have been made into films. His best-known works include The 1960 Chapman Report , The 1963 Price and 1974 Fan Club . Wallace has also written several notable non-fiction books, including several editions of The People Almanac and The Book of Lists . Articles written by him have appeared in magazines such as The American Legion Magazine , Liberty , Cosmopolitan , Esquire and Collier’s .

Wallace grew up in Kenosha , Wisconsin , where he went to Kenosha Central High School. He then attended the Williams Institute in Berkeley , California, and Los Angeles City College .

After his death, Wallace was buried in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City , California.

He sold over 250 million copies of his books worldwide.

Works (selection)

Biographies

• Chang and Eng ("The Two"). Bastei-Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1979, ISBN 3-404-01331-X .
• The Fabulous Showman. The Life and Times of PT Barnum . Knopf, New York 1959.

Scripts

• Roy Del Ruth (Director): The West Point Story . 1950.
• Joseph Pevney (Director): The Legionnaire of the Sahara ("Desert Legion"). 1952.
• Dick Powell (Director): Explosion in Nevada ("Split second"). 1953.
• Raoul Walsh (Director): Gun in hand ("Gun Fury"). 1953.
• David Butler (Director): The Hell of Dien Bien Phu ("Jump into hell"). 1954.
• Henry Levin (Director): River of Vengeance ("Gambler from Natchez"). 1954.
• Gordon Douglas (Director): Your very devoted ... ("Sincerely yours"). 1955.
• Stuart Heisler (director): Horizont in Flammen ("The burning hills"). 1956.
• Gordon Douglas (Director): Bomber B-52 ("Bombers B52"). 1957.
• Joseph M. Newman (director): The world of sensations ("The Big Circus"). 1959.

Novels

• The couch. Roman ("The Celestial Bed"). Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-05277-3 .
• Countdown to a miracle. Roman ("The Miracle"). Knaur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-426-01490-4 .
• Double game with checkers. Roman ("Second Lady"). Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1981, ISBN 3-7857-0271-X .
• The three sirens. Novel ("The Three Sirens"). Droemer Knaur, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-426-00586-7 .
• Eva - The Seventh Secret. Roman ("The Seventh Secret"). Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-552-04337-3 .
• Fan Club. Roman ("The Fan Club"). 8th edition Heyne, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-453-00867-0 .
• The women of Briarwood. Roman ("The Chapman Report"). Lübbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 1984, ISBN 3-404-10430-7 (former title The Chapman Report ).
• R. Roman secret files ("The R Document"). 8th edition Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1986, ISBN 3-404-10693-8 .
• The Golden Room. A novel . Sphere Books, London 1989, ISBN 0-7474-0449-6 .
• I, the most powerful of them all. Roman ("The Almighty"). Knaur, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-426-01238-3 .
• The James Papers. Roman ("The Word"). Edition Seeliger, Wolfenbüttel 2007, ISBN 978-3-936281-16-3 (former title The Other Bible ).
• Palais Rose. Roman ("The Plot"). New edition Droemer Knaur, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-426-00482-8 (former title Conspiracy in Paris ).
• The price. Roman ("The Prize"). 3rd edition. Bastei-Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1982, ISBN 3-404-00664-X .
• The black president. Roman ("The Man"). Droemer Knaur, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-426-01357-6 .
• The serum. Roman ("The Pidgeon Project"). 4th edition Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1986, ISBN 3-404-10785-3 .
• The seven minutes. Roman ("The Seven Minutes"). New edition Droemer Knaur, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-426-00316-3 .
• A state affair. Roman ("The Guest of Honor"). Droemer Knaur, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-426-02969-3 .

Non-fiction

• The fabulous originals. The lives of extraordinary people who have become unforgettable characters in a novel; Sherlock Holmes , Juliana Bordereau, Lady Arabella Dudley, Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hide , Maria Cecilia Rogers, Robinson Crusoe and others a. ("The fabulous originals. Lives of extraordinary people who inspired memorable characters in fiction"). Verlag, König, Greiz 2009, ISBN 978-3-939856-00-9 (reprint of the Minden 1963 edition).
• Rowohlt's indiscreet list. From Cleopatra to Elvis Presley ; Marriages, relationships, amours and affairs of famous women and men ("The intimate sex lives of famous people"). Rowohlt, Reinbek 1985, ISBN 3-499-15580-X .
• The Writing of One Novel . New English Library, London 1972.

Film adaptations

• George Cukor (Director): The Chapman Report ("The Chapman report"). 1961 (based on the novel of the same name).
• Mark Robson (Director): The Prize ("The Prize"). 1963 (based on the novel of the same name).
• Russ Meyer (Director): The Seven Minutes. 1971 (based on the novel of the same name).
• Joseph Sargent (Director): The man . 1972 (based on the novel of the same name).
• Valeri Kharchenko (director): Document R . 1985 (based on the novel of the same name).

literature

• Heinz Förster: Nature and Function of Imperialist Mass Literature in the USA in the Sixties and Seventies. Examined on the prose works of the successful authors Harold Robbins , Arthur Hailey , Irving Wallace, Jacqueline Susann , Erich Segal , Allen Drury and Robin Moore . Dissertation, University of Leipzig 1980.
• John Leverence: Irving Wallace. A writer's profile . Popular Press, Bowling Green 1974, ISBN 0-87972-063-8 (Profiles in popular culture; 1).

Web links

• Literature by and about Irving Wallace in the catalog of the German National Library
• Irving Wallace in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Irving Wallace in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Works by and about Irving Wallace at Open Library