death_place death_date children birth_place nationality ethnicity parents birth_date period spouse genre article_title name occupation
los angeles , california , u.s. 29 june 1990 amy wallace david wallechinsky chicago , illinois , u.s. american jewish bessie liss alexander wallace 19 march 1916 1955 -- 1993 sylvia kahn fiction , historical irving wallace
 irving wallace writer , journalist , screenwriter
irving wallace

irving wallace -lrb- march 19 , 1916 -- june 29 , 1990 -rrb- was an american best-selling author and screenwriter .
wallace was known for his heavily researched novels , many with a sexual theme .
one critic described him as `` the most successful of all the many exponents of junk fiction perhaps because he took it all so seriously , not to say lugubriously '' .
wallace was a blue-collar writer who wrote for a blue-collar audience .
most critics were scornful of his novels ' flat prose and pedestrian characters .
