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American writer
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22 May 1900(Campbell County, USA)
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8 March 1980
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Biography
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Wallace West ((1900-05-22)May 22, 1900 – (1980-03-08)March 8, 1980) was an American science fiction writer.
Biography
He was born in 1900.
He began publishing during 1927 with the story "Loup-Garou" in Weird Tales.The majority of West's work, which was published prior to the 1960s, was short fiction.His few novels, mostly published after World War II, were mostly re-workings of his pre-war short fiction.
He is credited with suggesting the plot to the Arch Oboler radio play Profits Unlimited (in Fourteen Radio Plays. Random House 1940).