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Penelope Wallace
Margaret Penelope June Wallace (30 May 1923 – 13 January 1997) was an English crime writer and the daughter of Edgar Wallace. Educated at Roedean School, Rodean, she established the Edgar Wallace Society in 1968 and remained its president until she died. She was active within the Society of Woman Journalists, and became its chair in 1982. In the 1980s, she became chair of the London Press Club, which had only begun to admit women in 1972 and was also chair of the Crime Writers' Association (1980), after long-term membership. She died in Oxford. She wrote five novels; four of them were only published in Germany. She wrote ''A Clutch of Bastards'' (Tallis, 1988, ). Wallace modernised several of her father's most commercially successful thrillers. References 1923 births 1997 deaths English crime writers Member of the Women's Press Club, London {{UK-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Wallace
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 – 10 February 1932) was a British writer. Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at the age of 12. He joined the army at age 21 and was a war correspondent during the Second Boer War for Reuters and the '' Daily Mail''. 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). Drawing on his time as a reporter in the Congo, covering the Belgian atrocities, Wallace serialised short stories in magazines such as ''The Windsor Magazine'' and later published collections such as ''Sanders of the River'' (1911). He signed with Hodder and Stoughton in 1921 and became an internationally recognised author. After an unsuccessful bid to stand as Liberal MP for Blackpool (as one of David Lloyd George's Independent Liberals) in the 1931 general election, Wallace moved to Hollywood, where he worked as a sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
