The Washington Post, June 30th, 1990
Irving Wallace, 74, the best-selling author whose lively novels, including "The Prize," "The Man" and "The Chapman Report," were strong on plot and background detail and were read by millions, died yesterday of pancreatic cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. By one estimate, Mr. Wallace's 33 books, both fiction and nonfiction, written alone or with members of his family, sold more than 194 million copies and made him one of the world's most widely read authors. A pipe-smoking former screenwriter, Mr. Wallace based many of his bestsellers on traditionally popular themes: sex, p...
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