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| − | ==Biography==
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| − | '''''1875-1932'''''
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| − | Wallace was born to an unmarried actress and fostered by a Billingsgate Fish Market porter and his wife when he was nine days old. His foster family already had 10 children. They were poor but a loving and happy family.
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| − | He took the name Dick Freeman but wrote as Edgar Wallace and grew to be one of the most successful and widely-read popular novelists in the world, with about 173 novels and 40 plays to his bibliography. At one point in his career 25% of all books sold in Britain were by Wallace, and his total sales to date are over 25,000,000.
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| − | He wrote the first 1,500 words of each novel in longhand, and then would dictate the rest to his secretary; he never revised or corrected anything - that was left to the secretary. In addition, he was a prolific journalist.
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| − | Although highly successful, he died deeply in debt, because he spent his fortune as fast as he earned it; he had to keep writing at the pace he did to sustain his lavish lifestyle.
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| − | ==References==
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| − | Dever, Maria, and Dever, Aileen. Relative Origins: Famous Foster and [[Adopted]] People. (Portland: National Book Company, 1992)
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| − | Lane, Margaret. Edgar Wallace: The Biography of a Phenomenon. ([[New York]]: Doubleday, Doran, 1939)
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| − | Kuusankosken Kaupunginkirjasto. "Edgar Wallace (1875-1932)." Available at: [http://kirjasto.sci.fi/ewallace.htm]
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