U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and screenwriter who excelled at writing popular fiction based on current events. Wallace began writing for various magazines at age 15. He wrote screenplays for various studios from 1950 to 1959, when he turned solely to writing books. His first major bestseller was The Chapman Report (1960), a fictional account of a sexual research team's investigations of a wealthy Los Angeles suburb. Among other fictional works by Wallace are The Prize (1962) and The Wo ...[Read Story]