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*** ,1875
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February 10, 1932 (56 years old)
Zodiac Sign
Aries
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Edgar Wallace
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace is an English writer. Born into poverty as an illegitimate child in London, Wallace, who left school at 12 years old. He joined the army at the age of 21 and served as a battlefield correspondent during the Second Boer War for Reuters and the Daily Mail. Struggling with debts, he left South Africa, returned to London and began writing horror films to increase his income, publishing books including The Four Just Men. During his time as a journalist in the Congo, recounting the Belgian atrocities, Wallace published short stories in magazines such as The Windsor Magazine and later published collections such as Sanders of the River. He signed with Hodder and Stoughton in 1921 and has become an internationally recognized author. After an unsuccessful attempt to become a Liberal MP for Blackpool in the 1931 general election, Wallace moved to Hollywood, where he worked as a screenwriter for RKO. He died suddenly from undiagnosed diabetes, when King Kong was originally written.
BornRichard Horatio Edgar Wallace, April 1, 1875, Greenwich, Kent, England
DiedFebruary 10, 1932, Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
NationalityBritish
OccupationCrime writer, war correspondent, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright
Known forCreation of King Kong
Spouse(s)Ivy Maude Caldecott 1901-1918 (divorced), Ethel Violet King (1921 – 10 February 1932)

About Edgar Wallace

Novelist Edgar Wallace was born in England on April 1, 1875. He dies at the age of 56, on February 10, 1932.

King Kong and the J. G. Reeder detective series are two of his most well-known works. He wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, several screenplays, non-fiction works, poetry collections, and short story collections, among other things.

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Edgar Wallace before becoming famous

Edgar Wallace was born in the Zodiac sign Aries (The Ram), and 1875 is also the year of Pig (豬) in the Chinese Zodiac.

Before becoming a mystery writer, he worked as a war correspondent. In 1898, he released his first book, a collection of ballads.

Achievement of Edgar Wallace

Director Alfred Hitchcock was influenced by his work.

Edgar Wallace's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

He was born in England to impoverished actor parents and was adopted by Clara and George Freeman when he was three years old. Wallace and his first wife, Ivy Maude Caldecott, had several children together. He remarried Margaret Lane, a novelist, after his divorce in 1918.

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He met author and poet Poet Rudyard Kipling and became acquainted with him.

Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) (Poet)
Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)

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Edgar Wallace Income & Net worth

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