Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at age 12.
He joined the army at age 21 and was a war correspondent during the Second Boer War, for Reuters and the Daily Mail.
Struggling with debt, he left South Africa, returned to London, and began writing thrillers to raise income, publishing books including The Four Just Men (1905).
After an unsuccessful bid to stand as Liberal MP for Blackpool (as one of David Lloyd George's Independent Liberals) in the 1931 general election, Wallace moved to Hollywood, where he worked as a script writer for RKO studios.
He died suddenly from undiagnosed diabetes, during the initial drafting of King Kong (1933).
Wallace was such a prolific writer that one of his publishers claimed that a quarter of all books in England were written by him.
As well as journalism, Wallace wrote screen plays, poetry, historical non-fiction, 18 stage plays, 957 short stories, and over 170 novels, 12 in 1929 alone.
More than 160 films have been made of Wallace's work.
Net Worth:
Edgar Wallace Net Worth: $100 Million
Edgar Wallace's Income / Salary:
Per Year: $20 Million
Per Month: $2 Million
Per Week: $500,000
| Per Day: | Per Hour: | Per Minute: | Per Second: |
| $70,000 | $3,000 | $50 | $1.00 |
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