Edgar Wallace

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Edgar Wallace
Edgar Wallace (1928)
LahirRichard Horatio Edgar Wallace
(1875-04-01)1 April 1875
Greenwich, Kent, Inggris
Meninggal10 Februari 1932(1932-02-10) (umur 56)
Beverly Hills, California, AS
KebangsaanInggris
PekerjaanPenulis kejahatan, koresponden perang, wartawan, novelis, penulis naskah dan pengarang sandiwara
Dikenal atasPembuatan King Kong

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 – 10 Februari 1932) adalah seorang penulis asal Inggris. Lahir dalam keadaan miskin di London, Wallace keluar dari sekolah pada usia 12 tahun. Ia masuk tentara pada usia 21 tahun dan menjadi koresponden perang pada masa Perang Boer Kedua untuk Reuters dan Daily Mail.

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  • Neil Clark Stranger than Fiction: The Life of Edgar Wallace, the Man Who Created King Kong, (The History Press, October 2014 (UK), February 2015 (US)) ISBN 978-0-7524-9882-9
  • J. R. Cox ‘Edgar Wallace’, in British mystery writers, 1860–1919, ed. B. Benstock and T. F. Staley, (1988)
  • Robert Curtis Edgar Wallace Each Way by (John Long, 1932)
  • Mike Hankin Ray Harryhausen – Master of the Majicks, Volume 1: Beginnings and Endings (Archive Editions, LLC, 2013). Contains the complete first draft of the Kong screenplay by Edgar Wallace.
  • Amnon Kabatchnik "Edgar Wallace" in Blood on the Stage, 1925–1950: Milestone Plays of Crime, Mystery, and Detection (Scarecrow Press, 2010) pp. 7–16 ISBN 978-0-8108-6963-9
  • Margaret Lane Edgar Wallace, The Biography of a Phenomenon (William Heinemann, October 1938). Revised and reprinted in 1965. An abridged version was issued in Reader's Digest, Vol. 34, No. 205, May 1939.
  • W. O. G. Lofts and D. Adley The British bibliography of Edgar Wallace (1969)
  • J. E. Nolan Edgar Wallace in Films in Review, 18 (1967), 71–85
  • E. Wallace People: a short autobiography (1926)
  • E. Wallace My Hollywood diary (1932)
  • Ethel V. Wallace Edgar Wallace by His Wife (Hutchinson, 1932)

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