Irving Wallace  

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Irving Wallace (March 19, 1916 - June 29, 1990) was an American bestselling author and screenwriter. His extensively researched books included such page-turners as The Chapman Report (1960), about human sexuality; The Prize (1962), a fictional behind-the-scenes account of the Nobel Prizes; The Man, about a black man becoming president of the U.S. in the 1960s; and The Word (1972), about the discovery of a new gospel.

Bibliography

Novels

• The Sins of Philip Fleming: A Compelling Novel of One Man's Intimate Problem (1959)
• The Chapman Report (1961)
• The Prize (1962)
• The Man (1964)
• The Three Sirens (1964)
• The Plot (1967)
• The Seven Minutes (1969)
• The Word (1972)
• The Fan Club (1974)
• The R Document (1976)
• The Pigeon Project (1979)
• The Second Lady (1980)
• The Almighty (1982)
• The Miracle (1984 / 2005)
• The Seventh Secret (1985) (with an additional chapter by Tom Posch in the Dutch translation of 1989 )
• The Celestial Bed (1987)
• The Golden Room (1988)
• The Guest of Honor (1989)

Non-fiction

• Fabulous Originals: Lives of Extraordinary People Who Inspired Memorable Characters in Fiction (1955)
• Square Pegs: Some Americans Who Dared to Be Different (1958)
• The Fabulous Showman: The Life and Times of P.T. Barnum (1959)
• The Twenty-Seventh Wife (1961)
• The Sunday Gentleman (1966) (non-fiction)
• Writing of One Novel (1968)
• The Nympho and Other Maniacs: The Lives, the Loves and the Sexual Adventures of Some Scandalous and Liberated Ladies (1971)
• The People's Almanac (1975) (with David Wallechinsky)
• Stardust to Prairie Dust (1976)
• The Book of Lists (1977) (with David Wallechinsky and Amy Wallace)
• Two: Biography of The Original Siamese Twins (1978) (with Amy Wallace)
• The People's Almanac No. 2 (1978) (with David Wallechinsky)
• The Book of Lists 2 (1980) (with Amy Wallace and David Wallechinsky)
• The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People (1981)
• The Book of Lists 3 (1983) (with Amy Wallace and David Wallechinsky)
• Significa (1983) (with Amy Wallace and David Wallechinsky)
• Secret Sex Lives of Famous People (1993)