Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (April 1, 1875–February 10, 1932) was a prolific British crime writer, journalist and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and countless articles in newspapers and journals. Over 160 films have been made of his novels, more than any other author. In the 1920s, one of Wallace's publishers claimed that a quarter of all books read in England were written by him.

Presumably born in London, he was found abandoned at the age of nine days in Billingsgate by a fishmonger, who subsequently brought him up as his own son. His career started as a war correspondent for the Daily Mail in the Boer War, following which he turned his hand to writing crime thrillers at a prolific rate. He is generally credited with inventing the modern thriller novel.

He wrote an immense number of novels in the last ten years of his life and his output is often compared to that of other prolific authors, such as Isaac Asimov. There is a famous anecdote in which visitors to his home actually observed him dictate a novel in the course of a weekend.

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An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex. ~~~ Edgar Wallace
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An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex. ~~~ Edgar Wallace
@christianthon - An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex. - Edgar Wallace
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