Wallace West ( – ) was an American

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Biography

He was born in

1900 As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15), 2 ...

. He began publishing during 1927 with the story "Loup-Garou" in ''

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''. The majority of West's work, which was published prior to the 1960s, was short fiction. His few novels, mostly published after

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, were mostly re-workings of his pre-war short fiction. He is credited with suggesting the plot to the

Arch Oboler Arch Oboler (December 7, 1909 – March 19, 1987) was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer, and director who was active in radio, films, theater, and television. He generated much attention with his radio scripts, particular ...

radio play ''Profits Unlimited'' (in ''Fourteen Radio Plays''. Random House 1940).

Bibliography

Film history

*''Alice in Wonderland'' (1934) *''Betty Boop in Snow-White'' (1934) *''Paramount Newsreel Men with Admiral Byrd in Little America'' (1934)

Novels

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The Bird of Time ''The Bird of Time'' is a science fiction novel by American writer Wallace West. It was published in 1959 by Gnome Press in an edition of 5,000 copies, of which 2,102 were never bound. The novel is a fix-up of four of West's short stories that ...

'' (1959) * ''Lords of Atlantis'' (1960) *''The Memory Bank'' (1962) *''River of Time'' (1963) *''The Time-Lockers'' (1964) *''The Everlasting Exiles'' (1967)

Short stories

*
The Last Filibuster
(1967)

References

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