欧文·华莱士

欧文·华莱士（英语：Irving Wallace，1916年3月19日—1990年6月29日），美国作家。二战时期曾在美国陆军航空军第一影视部队工作。

生平

华莱士十几岁时开始向杂志销售故事。在第二次世界大战中，华莱士在福克斯堡的弗兰克卡普拉单位和西奥多·苏斯·盖塞尔一起服务，并继续为杂志撰稿。他还曾在陆军第一电影部门任职。然而，华莱士转成为好莱坞编剧。他制作了诸如西点故事（1950年），斯蒂芬二世（1953年），在展览会上见面（1953年）和大马戏团（1959年）等电影。他还为西部电视节目《Have Gun - Will Travel》贡献了三个剧本。

1959年，华莱士出版第一部非小说作品“The Fabulous Originals”和第一部小说“菲利普·弗莱明的罪孽”。后者被评论家所忽视，随后是极大成功的《查普曼报告》。华莱士一生中出版了33本书，翻译成31种语言。

欧文·华莱士与前杂志作家兼编辑西尔维亚·华莱士结婚。西尔维亚·华莱士第一部小说“喷泉”是美国畅销书，出版了12部外语版。她的第二部小说“皇后”于1980年出版。她还帮助他和他们的两个孩子一起制作了“名单＃2”和“名人的亲密性生活”。

西尔维亚·华莱士于2006年10月20日去世，享年89岁。

华莱士的几本书已被制作成电影，最著名的书籍包括查普曼报告（1960年），The Prize（1962年），The Word（1972年）和粉丝俱乐部（1974年）。

1990年6月29日，华莱士死于胰腺癌，埋葬于加利福尼亚州卡尔弗希尔赛德纪念公墓。

Irving Wallace (March 19, 1916 – June 29, 1990) was an American best-selling author and screenwriter. He was known for his heavily researched novels, many with a sexual theme.

Early life

Wallace was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Bessie Liss and Alexander Wallace (an Americanized version of the original family name of Wallechinsky). The family was Jewish and originally from Russia. Wallace was named after his maternal grandfather, a bookkeeper and Talmudic scholar of Narewka, Poland. Wallace grew up at 6103 Eighteenth Avenue in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where he attended Kenosha Central High School. He was the father of Olympic historian David Wallechinsky and author Amy Wallace.

Career

Wallace began selling stories to magazines when he was a teenager. In the Second World War Wallace served in the Frank Capra unit in Fort Fox along with Theodor Seuss Geisel – better known as Dr. Seuss – and continued to write for magazines. He also served in the First Motion Picture Unit of the Army Air Force. Soon, however, Wallace turned to a more lucrative job as a Hollywood screenwriter. He collaborated on such films as The West Point Story (1950), Split Second (1953), Meet Me at the Fair (1953), and The Big Circus (1959). He also contributed three scripts to the western television program Have Gun – Will Travel.

After an unsatisfying stint in Hollywood, he devoted himself full-time to writing books. He published his first non-fiction work in 1955, The Fabulous Originals, and his first fiction offering, The Sins of Philip Fleming, in 1959. The latter, ignored by critics, was followed by the enormously successful The Chapman Report. Wallace published 33 books during his lifetime, translated into 31 languages.

Irving Wallace was married to Sylvia (née Kahn) Wallace, a former magazine writer and editor. Her first novel, The Fountains, was an American best-seller and published in twelve foreign editions. Her second novel, Empress, was published in 1980. She and her two children also helped him to produce The Book of Lists#2 and The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People. In her autobiography, Amy Wallace wrote that her mother's contributions were not always helpful and the atmosphere not always harmonious. Sylvia Wallace died October 20, 2006, at age 89.

Several of Wallace's books have been made into films, including The Chapman Report, The Man, The Seven Minutes and New Delhi. Also among his best-known books are The Prize (1962), The Word (1972) and The Fan Club (1974).

Michael Korda and Peter Schwed were the editors for Wallace at Simon & Schuster. In his autobiography Another Life, Korda suggests that Wallace invented a style of novel that is at once a strong story and encyclopedia, with "some sex thrown in to keep the reader's pulse going."

With his son, daughter and wife he produced some notable non-fiction works, including three editions each of The People's Almanac (with son David) and The Book of Lists (with David and Amy and wife Sylvia for the second volume). Wallace used many of the odd facts he uncovered in his novels.

Wallace died of pancreatic cancer on June 29, 1990, at age 74. He was interred at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.